Quotes About Wisdom

Freedom is to lose all illusions.

The discoverers of these laws are called Rishis, and we honour them as perfected beings. I am glad to tell this audience that some of the very greatest of them were women.

This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.

misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.

The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish and wealthy.

What a mean 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

In trying to practice religion, eighty percent of people turn cheats and about fifteen percent go mad; only the remaining five percent attain the immediate knowledge of the infinite Truth.

To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at all. I would develop the power of concentration and detachment, and then with a perfect instrument I could collect facts at will.

Swami Vivekananda

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life.

To the Hindu, man is not travelling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realise the Infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress; and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength, till it reaches the Glorious Sun.

In one span of life they lived the whole life of humanity

Truth never dreams.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.

Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries for ever;

the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts.

Go into your own room and get the Upanishads out of your own Self. You are the greatest book that ever was or ever will be, the infinite depository of all that is. Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in vain.

Again, we must consider, religion is a [matter of] growth, not a mass of foolish words.

B ooks are infinite in number and time is short The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential Take that and try to live up to it

Education is a life that has no end, an inexhaustible treasure, it has to be accepted until it gives up the last breath of death, without which all voids are unknown.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.