Quotes About Wisdom

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

In order to enjoy life one must be a master of life—for to be a slave to its inconsistencies can only mean torment; and in order to enjoy the senses one must be master of them. To dominate the actual world you must, like Archimedes, base your fulcrum somewhere beyond.

No, the wise man is he who by that wonderful alchemy of love transmutes the enemy into the friend,—transmutes the bitterest enemy into the warmest...(friend?). —What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of

Maturity is a result of learning from success and from mistakes—in other words, learning from experience.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

Era un pintor tan viejo que se le habían quedado calvos los pinceles. (He was such an old painter that his brushes had gone bald.)

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.