Quotes About Wisdom

I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to...I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manuals of good behaviour but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures and to live

Now, a few minutes ago, you called me master. What is a master: I would say that he is not someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to do his best to discover a knowledge he already has in his soul.

So goes the world: people talk as if they knew everything, and when you dare to ask, they do not know anything.

Perhaps love makes us old before our time - or young , if youth has passed

This morning, my son asked me for money to buy a sheep. Should I help him, do you think?" "Since it clearly isn't a matter of urgency, wait another week before giving him your answer." "But I have the means to help him now. What difference will a week make?" "A very great difference indeed. Experience has taught me that people only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been un-certain as to whether or not they'll get it.

I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling herself it wasn't fear - it was the wisdom of someone who knew what reality was.

Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a kind of apprenticeship that will lead him back to the right path.

Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.

Because you forgot that the path to knowledge is a path that's open to everyone, to the common people.

That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.

Those who don't understand their personal legends will fail to comprehend its teachings.

the truth about this existence of ours...can be summed up in one word: Live

If you understand life you need a reality check.

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn." How

But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity.

Si no nacemos de nuevo, si no volvemos a mirar la vida con la inocencia y el entusiasmo de la infancia, no tiene sentido seguir viviendo.

We're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives.

one must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants

And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That

When you are moving toward an objective,' said Petrus, 'it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is te road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk it's length

Suggestions for further reading Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem; Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha; Deepak Chopra, God: A Story of Revelation; Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet; Lawrence Kushner, Kabbalah: A Love Story; C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith; Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action.