Quotes About Wisdom

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!

You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don't have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you!

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

You may believe whatever you want; but the most important thing is to update you belief with the truth, with the science! Your dearest belief might be the biggest buncombe ever! Don't be sad! Continue your road with the new truth! Everything changes!

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Every creature is a word of God.

W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God.

Only those for whom God is present in all things and who make the very best use of their reason, know what true peace is and truly possess heaven.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

If his accusers charged Eckhart with heresy, then he charged them with stupidity.

It is the nature of the Word to reveal to me what has been hidden.

Thus the soul's pursuit continues, for she holds to this knowing-by-unknowing.

Master Shunryu Suzuki in his classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

remember one day when we were out shooting on location, I said to him, "Slim, you've made a thousand movies. I've only made two. Give me some advice." He said, "Well, Mel, whenever you get a chance—sit down. Directing takes a lot out of you and you're too busy to notice how tired you are.

right down." I

For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.