Quotes About Wisdom

The medicine man never cures his own illness.

The tongue is not the sea but it can drown you.

A woman is like mahogany — the older she is, the better she is.

I can't wait until New Year's Day 2021 — then I can say hindsight really is 2020.

And is then example nothing? It is everything. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds.

Try, above all things to be still and to contain yourself. You always want to rush into action. Realise that a certain kind of stillness is the most perfect form of action, like a seed can wait. One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not be a mere rushing on.

For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.

Don't trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you.

Pain gives you the memory of things you shouldn't do.

During this lesson, teach them how to absorb knowledge as opposed to just memorizing. Teach them to become individual thinkers and not part of the majority that agrees with what is popular--afraid to stand alone in their thinking.

One may even state for that true success in all Magic a thorough grounding in Yoga technique is an absolute essential.

Magic is the accumulated record of psychic and spiritual experience which we have inherited from the past, from former generations of mankind.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved.

One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is mystery . If one knew the truth how could there be freedom

There are so goddamn many ways to be a fool a man can't expect to avoid them all.

What a wealth we are granted, in the books that carry the best in us through time.

Tako se na kapiji, izme?u neba, reke i brda, naraštaj za naraštajem u?io da ne žali preko mere ono što mutna voda odnese. Tu je u njih ulazila nesvesna filozofija kasabe: da je život neshvatljivo ?udo, jer se neprestano troši i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji ?vrsto kao na Drini ?uprija.

Iz iskustva je znao kako štetni, i po društvo i pojedinca opasni mogu biti ljudi koji zbog svoje ograni?enosti neograni?eno veruju u svoju pamet i pronicjivost i u ta?nost svakog svog suda i zaklju?ka.

Misli dobro, pa ?e dobro i biti.

Mislim da ste i vi uvideli kako je teško sagledati i najo?igledniju istinu, kako ?ovek, uopšte, sporo u?i i kako skupo pla?a to malo što u svom kratkom veku nau?i.

Ovih dana sam mnogo ?itao i mnogo razgovarao sa ljudima - više nego što je zdravo i dobro za mene - a nauk koji se može izvu?i iz svega toga uvek je isti. Iznutra treba rasti, ?utke i neprimetno napredovati, i u pravi ?as se zaustaviti. Sve drugo zna?i: sam sebi plesti zamku, spremati svoj sopstveni pad.