Quotes About Wisdom

The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.

I would tell a young Jadakiss, learn the game as much as you learn how to rap, as seriously you take a 16-bar verse, take every contract and every meeting and every opportunity to listen and learn, you know what I'm saying. Keep that at a parallel.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

Îmi g?sisem religia: nimic nu mi se p?ru mai important decât o carte. Biblioteca era pentru mine un templu.

Il faut un double soleil pour éclairer le fond de la bêtise humaine.

Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.

It's ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

The price of truth is everything, but no one knows what everything means until they're paying it.

The end of illusion is the end of you.   U.G. Krishnamurti

Texts are teachers.

What we have to learn, we learn by doing. —Aristotle

Metaphors Be With You

Aptal olma, o senin için ilk gördüÄŸün andan itibaren bir kalp aÄŸr?s?yd?...

we needed to understand what "understanding

understanding cannot be measured by external behavior

incorrect assumptions keep us from seeing the correct answer.

History shows that the best solutions to scientific problems are simple and elegant.

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

Talking to a shrink was out of the question, of course; I would frighten the poor thing to death, and he might feel honor bound to have me locked away somewhere. Certainly I could not argue with the wisdom of that idea.