Quotes About Wisdom

Her mother said fairy tales didn't have anything to do with the world, but Ofelia knew better. They had taught her everything about it.

But what is intelligence? Is intelligence calculations and computations? Or must true intelligence contain a moral component? Each passing minute, I believe more that this is the case.

An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?

The most intelligent of creatures, often make the fewest sounds.

Part of getting old is checking oneself constantly. Keeping a good firm grip on the handrail. Making sure you're still you.

Learning about adults' secrets means learning to understand their world—and how to survive

That's what the books said, and didn't their tales feel so much truer than what adults pretended this world to be about? Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about - Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life.

It's always just a few who know where to look and how to listen, that is true. But for the best stories, a few are just enough.

Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. —JAMI, BAHARISTAN

Why should one like you envy Yudhishthira? . . . Be content with what you have, stay with your own dharma—that is the way to happiness. —Dhritarashtra to Duryodhana, Mahabharata II.5.3, 61

The task of an inspiring leader in Kali Yuga is not just to think about the difficulty of being good but how to confront that difficulty—and to place that thinking in the great textual confrontations of the past.

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truely die.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Realization of Truth is higher than all else. Higher still is truthful living.

Nu, nu m? mai las batjocorit, nu mai vreau s? fiu juc?ria unei soarte incerte, f?r? nici o È›int?, care m? înal?? È™i m? împinge iar? în mocirl?, nu cumva s? nu înÈ›eleg deÈ™ert?ciunea a tot ce-i p?mântesc. Ca È™i cum n-o È™tiam demult - orice copil o È™tie, pân? È™i câinele de pe strad?!

Celý život není nic jiného než otázky, které dostaly tvar a které v sobÄ› nesou zárodek odpovÄ›dí - a není nic než odpovÄ›di, které jsou obt?žkány otázkami. Kdo v nÄ›m vidí nÄ›co jiného, je blázen.

I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

the longing for wisdom itself is wisdom' - 'search for a fixed point within yourself, my child, that the world cannot reach' - regard everything that happens as a lifeless painting and do not let yourself be touched by it

verzeihen Sie, daß ich so furchtbar gescheit daherrede, aber wenn man an der Universität ist, kommt einem eine Menge vertrottelter Bücher unter die Hände; unwillkürlich verfällt man dann in eine deppenhafte Ausdrucksweise.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.