Quotes About Wisdom

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

As your aunts would say, 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding,'" Mac recited.

As your aunts would say, 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding,'" Mac recited. "'In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths,

In essence, there are not really twenty-two trumps, there is only one—the Fool. Al the other trumps live inside (and issue from) the Fool.

When you actually know the question, the answer is every­where, and you can see it in anything you observe.

Teach me (O creator of all things) to have correct knowledge and understanding, for your wisdom is all that I desire. Speak your word in my ear (O creator of all things) and set your wisdom in my heart.

THEREFORE I SAY UNTO THEE: COME FORTH UNTO ME FROM THINE ABODE IN THE SILENCE, UNUTTERABLE WISDOM, ALL-LIGHT, ALL-POWER! THOTH, HERMES, MERCURY, ODIN, BY WHATEVER NAME I CALL THEE, THOU ART STILL UN-NAMED AND NAMELESS TO ETERNITY! COME THOU FORTH, I SAY, AND AID AND GUARD ME IN THIS WORK OF ART.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

For there are roads and roads, and of truth there are orders and orders.

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

The mind is stirred up by ideas, which are like chaff. It is agitated by distractions, which are like the gusting wind. Thus there is no access to this nature. But if you rest correctly in the pure accomplished mind Beyond arriving and departing, Whence there's nothing to remove, To which there's nothing to be added; If you rest in primal wisdom All-creating, free from stain, You will behold this nature as it is.

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.