Quotes About Wisdom

for the purposes of my own spirituality, it is far more useful to recognize the limitations of my knowledge; to humble myself, not before a deity, but simply to be humble; to surrender, again, not to a God but simply to surrender; and to accept. Not accept certain facts; but simply to train myself in the practice of acceptance.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

I don't want to have all the answers, just the right questions.

In the first quarter of our century we daily conflate information with knowledge and knowledge with wisdom—with the resulting diminution of all three.

Who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria37 of experiences, information, books we have read.

Be careful what you say if you wouldn't want it broadcast everywhere because you never know. My basic advice would be for trust is : Live the way you ought to live all the time as much as you can help it.

Control yourself and no one else And you will see the Truth my brother

Just seems more complicated than other people. This complex human being may be at once "more naive and more knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. He or she is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier, and yet adamantly saner than the average person.

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that.

I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

Many are happy to give advice; few are happy to take it.

Listen to the fleshbody," the dropwort retorts. "A mere seventeen turns of the seasons on this ancient earth of ours, and yet he dismisses us.

Most often they speak according to their kind – the deep rumble of oak, the whisper of the birch, or the singsong chant of the alder. The evergreen stands of pine have voices sharp as needles. But the forest can speak as one, when it must. When the trees so choose, they think with one mind. When there is danger, especially, they speak in one voice of a thousand echoes. I hate it when they do this. For the forest mind is always right, and will hear no argument.

Agatha Swanburne - "Not all things should be baked in a pie.

she replied, "My lord, are you suggesting that I try to teach you to stop acting so wolfishly, just as I have taught the children?

But, Lumawoo, look. No motto.

Shikin Haramitsu DaiKo Myo

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.

So life is like fruit growing on the end of the branches..? -that's right.. -... it's like fruit.

Humanity knows nothing at all. There is no intrinsic value in anything, and every action is a futile, meaningless effort.

Non c'è nessuno così grande come chi non cerca di realizzare niente.