Quotes About Wisdom

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.

Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.

Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real… He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand…

while they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of mountain, and tree, and sky, and flower, and brook, the things that make truly wise those who pause to read.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

In the words of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: "There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

1) He must be competent, (2) he must exercise good judgment, and (3) he must have character. By itself, competence is meaningless without character and good judgment. If

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Saying nothing was preferable to saying too much. Well versed in the Bible, Lincoln may also have remembered the lines from Isaiah: "You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled."102

Irritably, Piatt replied that "in ninety days the land would be whitened by tents." But Lincoln would not take the bait. He merely replied: "Well, we won't jump that ditch until we come to it," pausing before he added: "I must run the machine as I find it." Piatt left dinner wondering why the "strange and strangely gifted" Lincoln remained "so blind.

Abraham Lincoln

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

in most of us, by the age of 30, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. (William James)...we are not forced to accept the hardening of our field of knowledge, a kind of psychosclerosis. There is no disgrace in not knowing everything. The problem is being unwilling to reach beyond what one knows to a broader, fuller reality.

To admit the presence of fear isn't weakness. Only a fool would pretend that he is never fearful.

You are young only once, but you can be immature for a lifetime." Right!

It's about freedom, joy, and wisdom. It's all about divine love.

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it. The Language of Soul

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. –Harold Kushner

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.