Quotes About Wisdom

Ramo vigrahavan dharma

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Dharma is a subtle thing. One can be true to it only if one's mind is entirely without desire

Are you wiser than humanity? Ilya's whispered in his mind, echoing Ananda. Not even you should have that power.

You will not be punished for your anger, Buddha had said. You will be punished by your anger.

Only a fool is always certain,

She opened to her higher self. The light and power of her massive intellect coursed through her.

Si no encuentras personas nobles con las que caminar en la vida, camina en solitario como el elefante

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

You know, it is very simple to be a genius. All you have to do is think for yourself.

So you can experience your thoughts through a three-dimensional reality for the prize of experience called wisdom.

Those books were called the Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (DeVorss & Co. Publishers, 1964).

In the future, you'll live astride the line separating life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them. You'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgement falls away, and there remains the miracle of being.

I'm sixty-seven years old. And, dear, in my sixty-seven years I've never let politics tell me how to treat people.

The one-eyed is always beauty in the land of the blind.

The pursuit of truth is like picking raspberries. You miss a lot if you approach it from only one angle.

Wisdom, said William James, Is learning what to overlook. And I am wise If that is wisdom.

Here where North, the night, the berg of death Crowd me out of the ignorant darkness, I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

I see at least that all knowledge I wrung from the darkness-- that the darkness flung me-- is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, the darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness and we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Acceptance of ones' mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

useful knowledge was to be acquired only by doing, by living, by running headlong into the burning house of human experience and coming out singed and scorched, lungs full of smoke. Such knowledge would arise not during but after the experience, when you are sitting alone in the dark and re-creating everything you did and felt and assessing the wisdom or foolishness of each moment, the penalties and rewards.