Quotes About Wisdom

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

What empowers me in my daily work and life is the knowledge that I will be guided, if I let go of my need to control. That I need only to leave space for grace to work in me.

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.