Quotes About Wisdom

In some ways, my naivete saved me.

To know God's name is to know God.

It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

The fact that I have the chance to learn from the names I've been on tour with, I don't think you can ask for any more than that.

I've been a character artiste for four decades, and in our job, we learn very early that it doesn't pay to be narcissistic.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

See there," he said. "The ants are drawing up and closing their doors. A book ain't the only thing there is to read. We best get going if we're going to.

Know thyself' was Socrates' challenge, a challenge both to personal memory and to honesty.

The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser.

Those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go.

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

What we call " revelations " is a correct term because the information or the idea is revealed to us. We downloaded it from Tao's bank of wisdom and information.

All new information comes from Tao. All old information came from Tao.

It would be wonderful when you get a new idea, one that you're grateful for if you gave a nod to Tao, an acknowledgment. You get more new ideas that way.

From this moment forward, I am in control of every situation. I will always know the exact right action to take, and this is so. I will now obtain vibrant good health. I will have the possessions I want, I now have the power and wisdom to bring this about, and this is so. I will have peace and harmony in my life. I will have love and abundance, and this is so. I now claim all these things for my own from this time forward.

What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all.