Quotes About Wisdom

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

Oh God, I'm old and I've never been young.

Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.

To become a great learner, you always need to become a keen observer.

Would you rather have your child in a room with the best equipment in the world with an average teacher or an empty room with Socrates?

A child who learns that the past has created the present and that the present will shape the future will be willing to explore other times beyond his own limited existence.

Socrates was the best teacher and they killed him!

Be brave, be bold, my dear, but do not be too bold. Do not go looking for trouble. It has a way of finding you on its own, soon enough. -Rose

old age is more easily kept at bay by an ever-inquiring mind than by any creams and lotions.

Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.

Do not entertain the fool unless you want the joke to be on you..

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions

Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

A slip of the tongue is not the fault of the mind a kick on the arse will bring back the mind

Within us lies the unlimited power and energy of the empowered soul. Its rich qualities include wisdom, fearlessness, immortality, unconditional love, connectedness, and bliss.

Within each of us is a spark of the Divine. Breathtaking regions of beauty, unimaginable vistas of sights and sounds, infinite wisdom, and all-embracing love invite us within. The Light of the Divine glows continually.

Dheedo says: 'Moments that sail past do not return; fortunes lost will not come back; a word uttered cannot be recalled; the released arrow does not revert to the bow; the escaped soul does not re-enter a dead body.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Some say that society is divided into those who have and those who have not but wished they had. I believe a more fundamental division is between those who know and those who do not know and have no idea they do not know.

My mouth keeps forgetting what my head has learned.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

And to this day I wish I had lingered a week or so.... But we stupid mortals, or most of us, are always in haste to reach somewhere else, forgetting that the zest is in the journey and not in the destination.

Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest.