Quotes About Wisdom

Perhaps the more that a person is an intellectual the more they are prone to misconceptions.

Si vous acceptez la mort ici et maintenant, votre vie sera plus profonde. Il ne faut pas être attaché à la vie. Ni à la mort.

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

Regardless of how long Daitsu Chisho Buddha sits, regardless of how long you sit, the Buddha dharma never appears because it is already here! Reveal it! Do not cover it up!

Knowledge may hinder. Ignorance may liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know, this is as important as a fluent blade. SUZUME–NO–KUMO (1434)

El conocimiento puede ser un freno. La ignorancia puede liberar. Saber cuándo saber y cuándo no saber es tan importante como un acero bien templado. Suzume-no-kumo, 1434

The sages say happiness and sorrow are one. Is this because in finding the first, we also find the second?

Lack of fear is not the mark of courage. It is the mark of idiocy. Courage is knowing fear and overcoming it.

What will happen will happen, whether you know of it or not. Believe me, it is not always better to know." "Knowing must be better," Shigeru said. "Then no one can take you by surprise." "Someone will always take you by surprise, because no matter how much you know, you can never know everything.

The lack of fear is not the mark of courage. It is the mark of idiocy. Courage is knowing fear and overcoming it.

Words can damage. Silence can heal. Knowing when to speak and when not to speak is the wisdom of sages. Knowledge can hinder. Ignorance can liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know is the wisdom of prophets. Unimpeded by words, silence, knowledge, or ignorance, a fluent blade cuts cleanly. This is the wisdom of warriors.

There is no light for those who do not know darkness.

Wisdom-gone-beyond is inexpressible, Inconceivable, and undefinable. Having the intrinsic nature of space it is nonarising and unceasing;It is the object of analytical insight. You, mother of the Buddhas in the three periods of time, I pay thee homage.

One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot.

If you follow the present-day world, you will turn your back on the Way; if you would not turn your back on the Way, do not follow the world.

It is the very mind itself That leads the mind astray; Of the mind, Do not be mindless.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth" and so it goes away. —Robert M. Pirsig

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner

When we are not in touch with the ultimate Source that can give us a picture of our true worth, we will slip and slide into the sea of false knowledge that inundates our information age. What

The appearance of Kabbalah in public means that Jewish mysticism has something unique to offer, a power for healing the spirit as we move into a radically new future.

Kabbalah thus enables us to see the depth dimension in all aspects of life, from family relations to politics and technology.

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.