Quotes About Wisdom

Kabbalah tells us that when things are difficult, it means that some kind of Light is trying to be revealed.

History Of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I, by Prof. Surendranath DasGupta (Cambridge University Press, 1922).

Yoga is only a means and not the end.

Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.

The guru is in you.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

I never said most of the things I said.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

We needed philosophical and inspirational guides to make sure we always asked the right questions and found the right answers.

For a dark stream bottom, use a dark fly; for a light stream bottom, use a light fly.

I only have one life so I better waste it wisely.

Expertise in any given single area is not enough to guarantee either prudent policies or the avoidance of blunders.

Some people might be born with a predisposition to better judgment, but the rest of us, I believe, have to grow wiser by hard work.

A healthy skepticism about all causation is wisest for both traditional and alternative approaches.

That girl,' tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, 'swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.

As a fact it was, in my mind, at one and the same time absolutely true and obviously untrue, and perhaps only children are able to accommodate double-faced facts like these.

Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.

The shit is *not* the shit (this was Mo's mantra,) the *pigeon* is the shit.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.

But I was so much older then," sang Archie mischievously, quoting a ten-year-old Dylan track, arching his head round the door, "I'm younger than that now.

for the Owl there was something Infinitely Preferable About the Night. The Owl had difficulty explaining this to other birds.