Quotes About Wisdom

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses (Proverbs 27:6).

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know (Jeremiah 33:3).

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

The Rosicrucian tradition encourages each student to discover the wisdom, compassion, strength, and peace that already reside within each of us.

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

she carries a book but it is not the tome of the ancient wisdom, the pages, I imagine, are the blank pages of the unwritten volume of the new.

let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

Good books are the warehouses of ideals.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. —SAUL BELLOW

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions, which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

All is as it should be. Learn, let go, move on

Don't hold resentments for the experiences that helped make you who you are

Enlightenment is seeing things as they are rather than as we imagine

Even a genius, without spiritual awareness, is still just a great calculator

Mistakes need correction not punishment