Quotes About Wisdom

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them, and one obviously has to try them sooner or later.

I thought what a good man he is, yet never annoyingly holy. And it struck me for the first time that if such a clever, highly educated man can believe in religion, it is almost impudent of an ignorant person like me to feel bored and superior about it.

To learn the way of the Buddha is to learn about oneself. To learn about oneself is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to be enlightened by everything in the world. To be enlightened by everything in the world is to let fall one's own body and mind.

If you can't find the truth right where you are, where do you expect to find it?

Teaching which does not sound as if it is forcing something on you is not true teaching.

I have found you can obtain much information from the spirit. But the quality of that information depends upon the evolution or development of that spirit.

Do not carve on stone or wood, He was honest or He was good. Write in smoke on a passing breeze Seven words… and the words are these, Telling all that a volume could, He lived, he laughed and… he understood.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

The truth of the world is exhausting.

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

One must become a book before one can know what is inside it.

People get bitten. But I won't.' I found myself saying, 'You will, you will. These snakes don't know you find death inconceivable. They don't know you're young and strong and you think death applies to everyone but you. They will bite you and you will die.

You are sure that you are right but you don't want everyone to think as you do. There is no truth without fools.

Maybe that was the answer I needed, the one route back. So simple. To decide to love the age.

A Greek will never say anything he hasn't already said a thousand times." Her husband Charles reprimanded me for not knowing the word. To Charles it was a mark of one's respect for other cultures to know the local terms of abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes.

There is a piece of Chinese wisdom," she said. "To know and not to act is not to know.

To know and not to act is not to know

Sometimes I think our love is inexperienced. The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

Abbiamo bisogno di sapere cose che gli altri non sanno. È quello che nessuno sa di te che ti permette di conoscerti.

How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or Plato They hand him hemlock for his wage Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.