Quotes About Wisdom

Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.

One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. Its like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialing out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Intelligence forbids tears.

If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.

The book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty -- and vice versa.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

You and I are the boulder-pushers. All our lives, you and I, we'll put all our energies, all our talents into pushing a great boulder up a mountain. The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.

Modern science has placed in human hands the power to do things that were previously unimaginable. Technology, the development of ever more sophisticated means for achieving any end we choose, dominates modern and modernized societies. But there is a growing perception that science and technology are no substitute for wisdom - for the power to discern what ends are in accordance with the truth and the power to judge rightly between alternative ends.

But we do not reach truth unless we allow ourselves to be exposed to and drawn by a truth which is beyond our present understanding.

I was then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues).

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We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Hope and experience take two different sides of an argument.

Once set a strong mind thinking, and you have done all that it needs for its education.

Truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered.