Quotes About Wisdom

Al wat de mensheid heeft gedaan, gedacht, gewonnen, of is geweest, dat ligt als door toverkunst vastgelegd in boeken.

In Büchern liegt die Seele aller gewesenen Zeit.«

A Good Book is the purest essence of a Human Soul ''.

Of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books! –

Human Intelligence means little for most of us but Beaver Contrivance, which produces spinning-mules, cheap cotton, and large fortunes. Wisdom, unless it give us railway scrip, is not wise.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

In any event, Socrates' proof of prenatal immortality is that one of Meno's uneducated slave boys actually comes up with the Pythagorean theorem without ever having studied geometry! Therefore, he must be remembering it. You recall that theorem: in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Huh? We can barely remember that from tenth grade, let alone from before we were born.

In the seventeenth century, René Descartes opted for reason over a divine source of knowledge. This came to be known as putting Descartes before the source.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

So if you are going to look for a pearl, it is best to still the waves; it will be hard to find if you stir the water. When the water of concentration is still and clear, the pearl of mind reveals itself.

The gateway to the Tao is open - anyone can come in. If you know how to change directions, the goal is near at hand.

Not diminishing the Way by the mind, not trying to help the divine by means of the human.

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.

The nobility of the ancients was no more than purity and serenity--what need for bushels of emblems?

The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections.

Everyone holds a luminous jewel, all embrace a precious gem; if you do not turn your attention around and look within, you will wander from home with a hidden treasure. Have you not heard it said, "In the ear it is like the great and small sounds in an empty valley, none not complete; in the eye it is like myriad images under a thousand suns, none able to avoid casting shadows"? If you seek it outside of sense experience, you will hinder the living meaning of Zen.

Wisdom should control courtesy. Courtesy should control righteousness. Righteousness should control benevolence. Benevolence should control trustworthiness. Trustworthiness should control wisdom. When these five natures produce and control each other thus in a continuous circle, then no element of personality dominates; they all interact, balancing each other, resulting in completeness of the five natures.