Quotes About Wisdom

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who lost his dog yesterday.

There are few pleasures equal to that of imparting to a voracious learner the knowledge that one has grown old and weary in acquiring.

The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this an Aristotle and a Plato have much to say; but those who have imposed cautions on themselves and petrified themselves in a system of ideas, them the masters themselves will lead into error

As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best philosophers in the world are boys with their beards new on their chins; I am a boy again.

And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what we know we can never attain, or what some secret wisdom tells us it would be uncomfortable or saddening to possess.

And I, who claim to know so much more, isn't it possible that even I have missed the very spring within the spring? Some say that we will never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

We all know more than we know we know.

There's a lot of common sense in some superstitions, George.

EMILY: Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?— every, every minute? STAGE MANAGER: No. The saints and poets, maybe—they do some.

Thornton Wilder

where do we go for experience? How do we trust

Life affords no second chances," he thought. "Is this what growing older is—seeing always more clearly the things we failed to see?

Thornton Wilder

she quoted the Spanish proverb, "The oak tree is in the acorn.

All I can say is, Emily, don't.

Any sage can do philosophy, but not every philosopher is a sage.

Star Wars is Chinese Taoism.

The shengren is above philosophy and beyond religion. He is decisively not European. This will be read in a thousand years.

El que se precie de conocerse bien y de saber inmediatamente lo que es válido y lo que no lo es, nunca podrá anotarse grandes éxitos en el campo del autoconocimiento. El que, por el contrario, parte de la idea de que cualquier animal de la calle lo conoce mejor de lo que él se conoce, va por buen camino.

The All is Infinite Living Mind—The Illumined call it SPIRIT!" —The Kybalion

The Kybalion as follows: "Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for his Teaching open wide." And again: "When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom." But their customary attitude has always been strictly in accordance with the other Hermetic aphorism, also in The Kybalion: "The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.

Knowledge without Use and Expression is a vain thing, bringing no good to its possessor, or to the race. Beware of Mental Miserliness, and express into Action that which you have learned. Study the Axioms and Aphorisms, but practice them also.

Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the Master.