Quotes About Wisdom

My reason is the universe's voice.

Take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Books think for me.

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.

Sixty feels exactly like 50, with aching feet and more forgetfulness.... But your inside person doesn't age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you've ever been.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

I am all the ages I've ever been.

If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.

You don't have to have been near death to know . . . what living is all about–but maybe it helps.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Long before he puts the problem into words, the scientist knows how to confine his questions to ones that he thinks are answerable. He wouldn't be able to formulate them otherwise. His taste, discernment, wisdom, shrewdness and experience have established within him an inner knowledge of what is feasible.

Even the wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face of the same colour.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess.

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

At every step we take to gain the approbation of the wise, we lose something in the estimation of the vulgar.