Quotes About Wisdom

Youth and vigor are no match for age and treachery.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Finally you get to the age when a book's power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

Socrates, after all, said that the unexamined life was not worth living. He might have added, however, that continual self-examination would leave us no time to live.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

Schopenhauer extended the same idea by favouring real observation over erudition, and stated confidently that the second sapped the first.

Shake an aphorism, he said, and in most cases a lie falls out, leaving only a banality.)

Tacitus, "qui abrégeoit tout parce qu'il voyoit tout." ("He abridged everything because he saw everything." Perfect.)

What is the use of being moral in a night-cellar, or wise in Bedlam? —WILLIAM HAZLITT,

the damaging notion that obscure is the way philosophy should sound.

To put it briefly, the secret is to put it briefly. But you always think that's what you're doing, until experience teaches you that you aren't being brief enough.

Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

No true God demands mindless belief and punishes the honesty of those who admit their doubt. The Mother knows you must doubt, to understand, to grow in wisdom.

A woman has the age she deserves.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.

In the front yard lives the oldest thing around, a white oak That I used to say is my love for the world, That I now would just call love as it is. Belonging to nobody, no metaphor, the very.

Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.

Water the fruit trees, and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentry and knotted up tumors.

Love is the religion and the universe is the book.

Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.