Quotes About Wisdom

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.In order to arrive at what you do not knowYou must go by the way which is the way of ignorance.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time

And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues...

Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

The heart can see things invisible to the eye.

For a true name holds true power.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

Fear teaches you to be cautious, careful, and conscientious. It also forces you to be creative, compassionate, and calculating.

If you want to be victorious in all your endeavors, then don't lean on your own understanding or to your own devices or innovations. Instead, in all your ways acknowledge the Lord, and He will direct your path.

God's response is simple. Anything that is made well is made slowly.

How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV).

if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.

Samson entertained Delilah, and she infiltrated his heart and took his secrets. Avoid entertaining thoughts that will destroy your peace.

Just because turtles dwell at your feet doesn't mean you should come down from your height and barter with, debate, or eat alongside them.

to weakness if you're fighting the wrong issue or the wrong person, or for the wrong reason.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Just because majority do something doesn't validate it to be the best thing to do

Avoid strife for today by forgetting the strife of yesterday, We all have skeletons in the closet -- use your skeleton key to keep them there.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

The Good Life is not the life of reason alone, but that of the dominance of reason over the spirited energies and the bodily appetites.

No se puede comprender el zen a través de los libros y conferencias. Se trata de descubrir en nosotros el origen de la vida manifestada. No podemos nutrirnos de la imagen de la manzana, ni podemos saber sin tocarla si el agua está caliente o fría.