Quotes About Wisdom

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

I'm just getting older and I'm understanding the game and I'm more experienced in the league.

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

The secret of success lies in realising one's mistake, understanding where one went wrong and taking steps to rectify that mistake.

Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.