Quotes About Wisdom

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water "you are a fine looking old man" I said to myself in the mirror "and what is more you have the correct attitude You don't care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise" Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

I salute you Brave spirit Who has swallowed so much And tasted so little.

The old are kind The young are hot Love may be blind Desire is not

Love me this first day of June. I'd rather sleep with ashes than priestly wisdom. Of all the lonely places in the world this is best where debris is human. I kiss the precious ashes that fall from fiery flesh. On these familiar shapes I lay my kisses down.

I'm old and the mirrors don't lie.

I remember what Ben Jonson said: 'I've studied all the philosophies and all the theologies but cheerfulness keeps breaking through.

If I spelled out the Principles of Faith I would be barking on the moon.

I stopped stopping and I stopped starting, and I allowed myself to be crushed by ignorance.

I don't ask for information that I probably wouldn't be able to process even if it were granted to me. --Aug 2016 interview, when asked what might be in store for us after the big sunset

The truth of the line overwhelms all other considerations" 1/24/03

to the young let me say: I am not sage, rebbe, roshi, guru I am Bad Example. to experienced persons who have criticized my life work as cheap, superficial, pretentious, insignificant: you do not know how Right you are.

After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

The man who waits for reality to write the truth inside his soul waits in vain.

Live in the world, Yoga Science teaches, but be not of the world. Do not let yourself be defined or limited by that which decays and vanishes. In other words, do what is to be done, when it is to be done, moment by moment—based on the wise and good counsel of the buddhi—and the grace of the Divine Reality will bring you everything you need.

Thought for the Week "Refrain from littering the landscape with unkind, cynical, mean-spirited words, and you can return the world to a civility that was lost when human beings began deifying indiscriminant thoughts as if they were the truth." Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.

I would guess that there are limits to what we can understand. But old people always think there are limits to what we can understand. It's the young people who push past those limits.