Quotes About Wisdom

The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.

There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

I'll bet I'm as old as you are. I'm older than Sanskrit. Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper. I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers. You win.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes. --Villa Incognito

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his no trespassing sign

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

It was quite likely the best advice I've ever received. I can't help but wonder what my life would have been like if I'd actually followed it.

Mystery is the face everybody shared before they were born and the joke they'll finally get after they're dead.

Be careful what goes into your mouth and what comes out of it.

The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.

Those people who recognize that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists.