Quotes About Wisdom

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

Part of the oddity of marriage, she thought, was in how unwise it was to attend too intently to the other person. In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

You just say the opposite to what everyone else thinks. Is that why people think you're so clever?

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good that he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: when you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

you when you're right and tells you when you're

Dn 't get mad at a pard who knows more'n you;

Some waddies take a little time to work it up and spit it out. Give it to 'em. Life ain't so short that you can't take

A fé lhe ensina aquilo que lhe cumpre fazer. A memória lhe mostra aonde vão parar todas estas coisas, trazendo-lhe presente à lembrança a morte daqueles que ela viu desfrutar dessas frivolidades, e como algumas foram súbitas e quão depressa foram esquecidas por todos;

If my little acts of virtue can be mistaken for imperfections, imperfections can just as easily be mistaken for virtue.

the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways.

Most of us pass our lives away eating the husks of life. Within them, beneath the rind, is a sweeter fruit than ever we have tasted. How shall we find it unless the rind is peeled away by Wisdom greater than our own, by a Love whose ways are strange and bewildering to us.

La verdadera sabiduría consiste en «querer ser ignorado y tenido por nada» –en «gozar en el desprecio de sí»–. Yo quería que, como el de Jesús, «mi rostro estuviera verdaderamente escondido y que nadie en la tierra pudiera reconocerme». Tenía sed de sufrir y de ser olvidada.

Jésus n'a pas besoin de livres ni de docteurs pour instruire les âmes; lui, le Docteur des docteurs, enseigne sans bruit de paroles.

Does not the Wise Man tell us—"Life is like a ship that passeth through the waves: when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found"?

Instruct us, Father, gently in the secrets of your love.

The warrior knows that the world is not what it appears to be, and therefore does not make the mistake of assuming anything to be merely a logical necessity.

Man's only justification for physical existence is to learn; this is his destiny which he cannot avoid under any circumstances.

No man can survive the path of knowledge if he is not prepared to embrace death. Death is a warrior's best advisor.

KNOWLEDGE CAN BE ACQUIRED ONLY THROUGH ACTION IN DAILY LIFE.

IN WORKING WITH MIRRORS IT IS NECESSARY TO RECAPITULATE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, FROM THE PRESENT MOMENT RIGHT BACK TO THE MOMENT OF BIRTH. SUCH A RECAPITULATION DEMANDS A LEVEL OF HONESTY WHICH IS ONLY ATTAINABLE THROUGH AN ACT OF RUTHLESSNESS. RUTHLESSNESS MUST BEGIN WITH YOURSELF. ONLY WHEN RUTHLESSNESS HAS REPLACED SELF-PITY CAN YOU ACHIEVE THE SOBRIETY NEEDED IN ORDER TO DISCRIMINATE WITH WISDOM.