Quotes About Wisdom

But you must have knowledge and know-how to interpret the meaning of what you observe

Almost anything can be found in a book.

The Richest Man in Babylon:

seeking self-inspiration, to action, seeking know-how, and seeking knowledge.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

Slowly we are learning, We at least know this much, That we have to unlearn Much that we were taught, And are growing chary Of emphatic dogmas; Love like Matter is much Odder than we thought.

Knowledge may have its purposes, but guessing is always more fun than knowing.

Always the following wind of history Of others' wisdom makes a buoyant air Till we come suddenly on pockets where Is nothing loud but us; where voices seem Abrupt, untrained, competing with no lie Our fathers shouted once.

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

Si los muertos ven claramente, solo los vivos nos cegamos constante can trivalidades.

Primero tienes que aprender a caminar. Después aprenderás a danzar. Luego se aprende a detenerla danza, para poder mirar bien al danzarín. La Única Vida no es mas que una danza, y hay que aprender a sentir sus movimientos antes de poder comprenderla.

Gu- means darkness and ru- means light. A guru is one who dispels spiritual darkness and gives light to the disciple (called a chela or sishya, for which the Punjabi equivalent is 'Sikh').

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

W. Scott Poole

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.