Quotes About Wisdom

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

She turned her violet eyes on him and quoted. "'Not only is the universe stranger than we suppose, it is stranger than we can suppose.'" "And whose deathless pearl of wisdom was that?" "Heisenberg, some say." "You mean the guy in Breaking Bad?" Constance issued a low, mirthless laugh.

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Jennie taught me just how worthless that is. Being smart. Jennie wasn't smart by human standards, but she had a set of values. Real values. You see, for Jennie, freedom was the highest value. Language gave Jennie freedom. Although I didn't know it at the time, she taught me the real meaning of the word "freedom," not the bullshit meaning you get from politicians and priests.

Of the dead'… hmmm… 'speak well or say nothing.

Denying the existence of things beyond our knowledge is as dangerous as promoting them.

Some things transcend even lunacy.

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The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. When you give an Einstein two centuries to perfect his science, you give a thousand others two centuries to perfect their brutality.

The question failure asks is: what don't we know that we don't know?

Most people, in my experience, are a little thick. If not abundantly so.

Il tempo è un galantuomo

As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark.

Information is like electricity; it powers the light that allows us to see our way forward.

because even the alphabet is precious.

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren't even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that insecurity, and all wisdom will be yours.

Whatever you think you are, that's not it.

When you argue with reality, reality always wins

The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe. The modern age has forgotten that facts and information, for all their usefulness, are not the same as truth or wisdom, and certainly not the same as direct experience.

Jesus is saying, "Come, come into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven exists on the face of the earth, and men and women do not understand it.