Quotes About Wisdom

It is practice first and knowledge afterwards.

Buddha's father had been in the world.

We see then, in the study of Raja Yoga no faith or belief is necessary. Believe nothing until you find it out for yourself—that is what it teaches us. For, truth requires no prop to make it stand.

through the mercy of the Lord, reaches a plane where pedantic and powerless reason is left far behind, and the mere intellectual groping through the dark gives place to the daylight of direct perception. He no more reasons and believes, he almost perceives. He no more argues, he senses. And is not this seeing God, and feeling God, and enjoying God higher than everything else?

All knowledge, therefore, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases it is not discovered, but remains covered, and when the covering is being slowly taken off, we say, "We are learning," and the advance of knowledge is made by the advance of this process of uncovering. The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the more knowing man, the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant

I do believe losing your head has made you more intelligent.

The old sorceress was not given to berating herself herself, but she could not help but think she had made a mistake. Possibly the worst of her whole life.

We loved once, and we loved badly. We loved again, and again we loved badly. We did it a third time, and we were no longer living in a world free of experience. We saw that love did not make us tender, wise, or compassionate. Under its influence we gave up neither our fears nor our angers. Within ourselves we remained unchanged. The development was an astonishment: not at all what had been expected. The atmosphere became charged with revelation, and it altered us permanently as a culture.

The essay becomes an exercise in the meaning and value of watching a writer conquer their own sense of threat to deliver themself of their wisdom.

Some things are just straw, and some things are gold, and sometimes you just have to know which is which.

The past is prologue—and why are the lessons not being learned?

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

S láskou je to jako s pe?ínkou: ?ím starší jsou zuby, tím mladší musí být jehn?.

?nsanlar?n mutluluk, a?k, sevinç olarak adland?rd??? ?eylerin hepsinin yanl?? faraziyeler üzerine kurulu yanl?? hesaplar?n bir birikimi oldu?unu ke?feden herkes, kalbinde sadece korkunç bir bo?luk bulacakt?r.

Learning suits youth, the pleasure of teaching--old age.

Divido a la humanidad en dos campos bien diferenciados. Por un lado, el puñado de los que saben de qué se trata; por el otro, la inmensa multitud de los que no lo saben.

Hâlâ çok gençtim ve insanl???n büyük ço?unlu?unun aptalca hikâyelere ve yalanlara inanacak derecede cahil olu?u beni çok ?a??rt?yordu. Dünyadaki misyonumun hakikat yolunda çabalay?p insanlar?n gözlerini açmak, onlar? yan?lg?lar?ndan dolay?s?yla da sahtekârlar?n elinde oyunca olmaktan kurtarmak oldu?u fikrine kap?lm??t?m.

tereddüt içinde bocalamak ve ebedi bir aray?? içinde olmaktansa, sa?lam bir dala tutunmay? tercih etmi?lerdi. Sadece cahil halk de?il, okumu? ve bilgili ki?iler de ula??labilen bir yalan?, ula??lamaz bir gerçe?e ye? tutuyorlard?.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Der kluge Idealismus steht dem klugen Materialismus näher als der dumme Materialismus.

It is not he who makes no mistakes that is intelligent. There are no such men, nor can there be. It is he whose errors are not very grave and who is able to rectify them easily and quickly that is intelligent.

Words without experience are meaningless.