Quotes About Wisdom

The man who invites the wolf in over his threshold is no longer in a position to ask him to leave. That is a truth it were better none of us ever had to learn.' BOOK THREE THE ROSE AND THE CHERRY Her lusty ruby ruddes Resemble the rose buddes; Her lippes soft and merry Enblooméd like the cherry: It were an heavenly bliss Her sugared mouth to kiss.

How can something get you thinking the wrong way, if you know how to think the right way?' Sammy asked.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

She was old; millions of years old, she felt.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--

She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can grow wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes, and says, is always true.

Só a juventude conhece o sabor da imortalidade.

It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.

Look here, my dear child'—and Lady Bennerley laid her thin hand on Connie's arm. "A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. Believe me!" And she took another sip of brandy, which maybe was her form of repentance.

My lad, she said, they're very wise. They know they've only got to flatter your vanity, and you press up to them like a dog that has its head scratched. Well, they can't go on scratching for ever, he replied. And when they've done, I trot away. But one day you'll find a string round your neck, that you can't pull off, she answered.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our blood.

Yet we must know, if only in order to learn not to known. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere. That is, how to live dynamically, from the great Source, and not statically, like machines driven by ideas and principles from the head, or automatically from one fixed desire. At last, knowledge must be put into its true place in the living activity of man. And we must know deeply, in order to do that.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes. You can't know beforehand.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base, and must be left to the ancient worshippers of power, worship of Moloch. We do not worship power, in our enlightened souls. Power is degenerated to money and Napoleonic stupidity.

Those who are extremely stupid think that women are merely the objects of sexual desire and treat women in this way. The Buddha's children should not be like this. If we discriminate against women because we see them merely as objects of sexual desire, do we also discriminate against all men for the same reason?

Dogen's teaching: We practice because we do not yet know who or what we are. But as a result of many causes, including the suffering we experience and the longing engendered by that suffering, we aspire to know. That aspiration leads many people to begin the practice of zazen. Dogen expressed this beautifully when he said, "Wisdom is seeking wisdom." Perhaps we might paraphrase and say that wholeness is seeking wholeness, self is seeking self.