Quotes About Wisdom

Live your life how you want. Before you know it you'll be old. Old as me. And when you get to my age you get a different perspective on life. Suddenly, every day seems just that little bit shorter. You feel the ache coming in your bones. You know that the best, most fruitful part of your life is over. I read once that when people get old and go senile, they go back to a time in their life when they were useful.

Oh, to be that young again, and know what she knew now.

Think with your head, not your heart.' He looked

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

Now I will tell you a true thing, child, and if you are wise you will remember it. The soul, it longs for its mate as much as the body. Sad it is that the body be greedier than the soul. But if you would be happy all your days, as I was with your grandfather, subdue the body and marry the soul.

Now I will tell you a true thing, child, and if you are wise you will remember it. The soul, it longs for its mate as much as the body. Sad it is that the body be greedier than the soul. But if you would be happy all your days, as I was with your grandfather, subdue the body and marry the soul. Look for a soul-and-heart love.

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.

your mind, not in your hand. It should get you out from the covers and into your projects as fast as possible. And it should reveal its deeper wisdom reading

When you shift your focus from getting grades to gaining understanding, you set yourself on the road to mastery. You begin learning how to learn.

Peace will always rule the day where reason rules the mind.

The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Yeshua said, Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy.

this saying appears in an inscription from a mosque at Fatehpur Sikri, India: "Jesus said, 'This world is a bridge. Pass over it, but do not build your dwelling there.

receiving knowledge means truly to come into being, to be manifested, whereas those who remain in error do not really exist at all

What did Jesus say to you? Thomas said to them: If I tell you one of the words which he said to me, you will take up stones (and) throw them at me; and a fire will come out of the stones (and) burn you up. [Gospel of Thomas - 13]

When you know yourselves,7 then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty and you are poverty.

Truth leads to Freedom, yet freedom does not necessarily lead to truth.

Judas said, "How is the spirit disclosed?" The master said, "How [is] the sword [disclosed]?" Judas said, "How is the light disclosed?" The master said, "[It is disclosed] through itself eternally.

As for you, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

Speak of truth with those who seek it and of knowledge with those who have sinned in their error. [33]

Sethian texts frequently portray the glorious fullness (plrma) of the divine in graphic detail, and they highlight the fall of the divine, through wisdom's folly, as the source of the creation, fall, and redemption of the world of humankind.