Quotes About Wisdom

Holy Scriptures

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

Time is a river, and books are boats.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.

Buddha had said: Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

We all fear what we do not understand.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

To permit ignorance is to empower it.

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

We fear what we do not understand...

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

Ah, yes Langdon said with a knowing smile. Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex? Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.

The art is in knowing how to ask.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

The Secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret has always been how to die.