Quotes About Wisdom

Drunk and smart--twice blessed.

here is a better chance of a repository of the kind of wisdom I choose to be governed by among average people than among Ph.D's at Harvard."22

Phaedrus: 'They will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome, having the reputation of knowledge without the reality?' "6

The devout are always urged to seek the absolute truth with their hearts and not their minds.

people of tradition, faith, and custom do not reject science or reason, but they do not worship them, either. They have learned and experienced the value of eternal truths and past wisdom, including from the ancients, which reflects the basis of America's founding, as concisely set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.

In a similar vein, Taoism identifies freedom with wu wei: acting without acting.

The meaning of life — that is something for a simpler time.

I have stories to tell. I have no theories, no advice, just stories.

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

Fiction is a lie that tells deep truths

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. —ARISTOTLE

Even the gods love jokes. —Plato

As Mark Twain observed, "Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that's only if you're very lucky. And you listen very hard.

My dad used to say the best place to look for sympathy was somewhere between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

We think, "Hey. The Bible is holy, so quoting it must make my choices correct." But someone else tried that tactic before. Yeah. His name was Satan.

The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.

Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: "If you want to learn something," he says, "read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!" (Bhajan).

The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.

The past is the past. That's all it'll ever be, and it's certainly not worth feeling bad in the present over.

We have heard that, too," the priest said. "But we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened. If we lose love, all is lost. We just have to get smarter.

But we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened. If we lose love, all is lost. We just have to get smarter.

You know, my young friend, I will be ninety years old next year, and life is still a constant surprise to me. We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person we will lose. Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not a tragedy.