Quotes About Wisdom

?a?rat ("The Presence") 'Al?, who lived from 598 to 661 of the common era,

It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity." —Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in physics

The one who knows much about anything knows far better than the uneducated how much he does not know about it.

63 St. John of the Cross, Counsels to a Religious on How to Reach Perfection, no. 2, p. 662.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

I think I'd be depressed if everything were nearly all known, but I don't feel any danger of that happening.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.

What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.

I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.