Quotes About Wisdom

A profunda ignorância é o que inspira o tom dogmático". La Bruyère

Quem envelhece reconhece que permanecemos constantemente em culpa, através de todas as circunstâncias e combinações da vida; mas em cada homem habita também a sua sorte de inocência; e é esta que o sustenta, sem que ele mesmo saiba como

Sages seek from mind, not from the Buddha; fools

Look within! The secret is inside you.

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Goethe, the great poet-philosopher, once wrote: "I find more and more that it is well to be on the side of the minority, since it is always the more intelligent.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

The collective wisdom in Pakistan seems to be that nothing in Pakistan's predicament is the result of wrong policy choices made by its leaders and that the only thing Pakistanis need to do is to fend off discussion of the negatives, rather than attend to the negatives themselves.

Then the old man said something that set the ground for the change that would occur in Ashraf s life: 'Don't you want to take revenge?

Jenabai knew how much it must have cost Mastan to admit his helplessness in resolving the issue. He was always conscious of his public image—perhaps because he was defensive about his lack of education—and hated to appear anything but wise.

Through pain comes wisdom. I endured a lot of pain.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

You can't understand anything unless you unless you understand everything.

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

Lincoln Steffens has a fable of a man who climbed to the top of a mountain and, standing on tiptoe, seized hold of the Truth. Satan, suspecting mischief from this upstart, had directed one of his underlings to tail him; but when the demon reported with alarm the man's success—that he had seized hold of the Truth—Satan was unperturbed. "Don't worry," he yawned. "I'll tempt him to institutionalize it." That

It is a flower that can be opened in many way...Unfold the petals of [your] stories one by one and [you] will see a great deal.

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.