Quotes About Wisdom

Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

I hate the word 'simple'. Nobody has any business to live in the world and know nothing about its ways.

When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illuminated faith, and fear into love.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

Wisdom fears no thing, but still bows humbly to its own source, with its deeper understanding, loves all things, for it has seen the beauty, the tenderness, and the sweetness which underlie Life's mystery

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

The auric body of a snake is one of the most remarkable sights that the clairvoyant will ever see, and the secrets concealed within its aura demonstrate why the serpent is the symbol of wisdom among so many nations.

Thou wouldist not seek me hadst thou not found me.

the path of salvation could be walked successfully only by those who had practical, scientific knowledge of the occult function of their own bodies.

When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith, and fear into love.

Wisdom is given to no man until he asks for it.

He who knows not that the Prince of Darkness is the other face of the King of Light knows not me.

Man is never truly wise until he has fathomed the riddle of his own existence

Every truly intelligent man and woman who is working to spread light in the world is christened, or Lightened, by the actual labor which he or she is seeking to perform. The fact that light (intelligence) partakes of the natures of both God and the earth is proved by the names given to the personifications of this light for at one time they are called the "Sons of Men' and at another time the "Sons of God.

As enlightenment increases, the desire to share it increases; but with this desire comes the realization that it is impossible to share the Real. Realization is an inward experience which can come only to those who have won it in their own right. It cannot be conferred.

The fool lives but for today; the philosopher lives forever.

If the ignorant could be happy there'd be no reason for anyone to struggle to become wise. Nature has decreed that the ignorant can never be happy, and in their lack of knowledge is the secret of their own misfortunes.

Without the mysterious keys carried by the hierophants of the Egyptian, Brahmin, and Persian cults the gates of Wisdom cannot be opened.

In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious, while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable.

Hanged Man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread. Wisdom, not death, is the reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended above the world of illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-realization.

Todas las naciones paganas han tenido y tienen no solo su religión oficial, sino también otra a la cual solo han podido acceder los filósofos elegidos.

Truth is not lost, yet it must be sought for and found.

Man is born with eyes, yet only after long years of sorrow does he learn to see clearly and in harmony with the Plan.