Quotes About Wisdom

Let the hard things in life break you. Let them effect you. Let them change you. Let these hard moments inform you. Let this pain be your teacher. The experiences of your life are trying to tell you something about yourself. Don't cop out on that. Don't run away and hide under your covers. Lean into it.

The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our hang-ups, unfortunately or fortunately, contain our wealth. Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - "You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather."-

maybe the only enemy is that we don't like the way reality is *now* and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

everything that occurs in our confused mind we can regard as the path.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

I think one should never be too busy to teach those who are anxious to learn.

La antigüedad no es lo mismo que el interés histórico —dijo—. De lo contrario, nosotros dos seríamos más interesantes de lo que somos.

Un buen libro es la preciosa savia del alma de un maestro, embalsamada y atesorada intencionadamente para una vida más allá de la vida.

Hannah wanted to put the next day's work on the blackboard. This would mean that she needn't turn her back on the class first thing, which is as unwise in junior teaching as in lion-taming.

Un buen libro es la preciosa savia del alma de un maestro, embalsamada y atesorada intencionadamente para una vida más allá de la vida y, como tal, no hay duda de que debe ser una artículo de primera necesidad

Ein gutes Buch ist der kostbare Lebenssaft eines meisterlichen Geistes, einbalsamiert und aufbewahrt zum Zweck eines Lebens über das Leben hinaus (...)

In life as in history the unexpected lies waiting, grinning from around corners. Only with hindsight are we wise about cause and effect.

So now we are young still but a better sort of young.

Old age is an insult. Old age is a slap in the face. It sabotages a fine mind (...).

The regrets of old age are polarized: you wish you had not done certain things--behaved thus, responded like that--and you wish you had seized more of the day, been greedier, packed more in.

One thing old age does is play tricks with time. Time

What I could offer Lisa was not the conventional haven of maternal love and concern but my mind and my energy. If she had not acquired these genetically then I was quite prepared to show her how to think and act. I was no good at kissing away tears or telling bedtime stories – any mother can do that: my uses were potentially far more significant.

The blizzard of baffling and confusing instructions and information that falls upon every child everywhere assumes a Carrollian texture.

Reading in old age for me is doing what it has always done--it frees me from the closet of my own mind.

What we have read makes us what we are – quite as much as what we have experienced and where we have been and who we have known. To read is to experience.

Penso, como ele, que a fronteira entre a verdade e a mentira é um caminho no deserto. Os homens dividem-se dos dois lados da fronteira. Quantos há que sabem onde se encontra esse caminho de areia no meio da areia?

Para ti todos os homens são maus? Só as crianças são boas? - Sim. - Então eu também sou maus? - Não - disse Ngnunga- O camarada Professor é capaz de ser ainda um bocado criança, não sei.

I'm older than Time and Space because I'm conscious.