Quotes About Wisdom

Our grandfather, in dreamless sleep beneath us, spoke to us from the singing hive of memory.

He tells me that teaching is the art of theft: of knowing what to steal and from whom.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. But there is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. The great secret of athletics is that you can learn more from losing than winning.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen

Leaders make a lot of decisions, they invariably make a lot of mistakes- more mistakes than an average person. Average person, whose decisions are never questioned and their words never challenged, keep making mistakes over and over again, because they never learn from their failures or their misjudgments. Only humble leaders learn and grow from their mistakes

Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

Successful people are those who have learned how to learn. Whether college-educated or self-educated, successful people depend on themselves, not others, for their own knowledge, skills, and wisdom. People who are committed to life-long learning have everything they need to shape their own.

With this truth bearing light will begin a new life. Old unwanted impressions are discarded and we are protected from the damaging effects of new experiences.

Life cannot be known by the "mind," its secrets cannot be learned through the "mind." The proof is, the ceaseless strife and contradiction of opinion among those who trust in the mind. Much less can the "mind" know itself, the more so, because it is pervaded by the illusion that it truly knows, truly is.

The great secret is this: it is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.

La raison d'être du monde est d'être source d'expériences multiples et d'ainsi nous mener ultimement à la libération.

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

When you open your mind and hands and heart to the knowing of a thing, there is no room in you for fear.

I think they could teach us unimaginable things. Unimaginable! I can't imagine anything except danger. I know. That's why they're afraid of you.

Easier to understand the wind . . . Easier to walk on the surface of the frothing sea, than to remember the hunger to do it. Easier to remember knowledge than ignorance, experience than innocence. Easier to know what you are than remember what you were.

I thought that all magic has its price.' 'Magic does,' Faey said. 'But let us consider this an exchange of knowledge. I'll tell you what you want to know and you'll tell me why you want to know it.

I saw a man once leap into a pit to see how deep it was, he commented. But no doubt you are wiser.

I think the best way to teach well is to be always learning something. Don't you agree?

I did not say what I thought; perhaps, if it remained unspoken, it would become untrue.

She closed her eyes, felt a long breath ease out of her, and realized then how much knowledge could weigh until it was shared.