Quotes About Wisdom

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

When we put up with any situation we don't have to put up with, it's not because we're dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

The simplest things are often the truest.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember.

You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

It's okay is a cosmic truth…It's okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn't bother to pay the fare.