Quotes About Wisdom

The person who tasted the darkness of ignorance realized that science is light.

A Three pronged test for any belief: Can it be verified by the sights and senses of common people? How is it to be applied? Will it benefit the greatest number? from Against Fate

The foolish man thinks cats can only have cat food. The wise man knows they are allowed a little salami.

Uganda is one of the leading African countries in the world that specialises in killing both the dream & the dreamer. So work hard and be wise.

Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance.

understanding the nature of things just as they are. Why? Because: So you should view all of the fleeting worlds: A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

Some of them taught that all worldly things are unreal, because [they are] a result of the perverted views. Only that which transcends worldly things and can be called "emptiness," being the absence of them all, is real. Others said that everything, both worldly and supramundane, both absolute and relative, both Samsara and Nirvana, is fictitious and unreal and that all we have got is a number of verbal expressions to which nothing real corresponds.

For the practitioner, the understanding of wisdom and compassion—and the inherent tension between the two—is not to be resolved on a theoretical level, but to be experienced in one's own mind and body. In this way one finds emptiness and compassion to be mutually supportive rather than mutually contradictory.

saving all beings knowing full well that there is no one to save.

This wisdom is not formulaic and cannot be captured in words, for it has gone beyond words to a place where direct realization rather than conceptual verbalization is the essential mode of being.

It is a perfection that does not aim at completion; rather, it is wisdom based on practice through which one is always progressing toward the ideal.

inspire people to move from a totally information-based orientation toward the transformattive integration of insights from the wisdom traditions with their own experience.

There are two roads which human beings can follow, one of wisdom and the other of ignorance. The path of the masses is generally the path of ignorance which leads them into negative situations, thoughts and deeds. These in turn lead to ill health and sorrow in life. The other road is based on wisdom and it leads to health, true happiness and enlightenment.

Strive to see with the inner eye, the heart. It sees the reality not subject to emotional or personal error; it sees the essence. Intuition then is the most important quality to develop.

O people of the earth, men and women born and made of the elements, but with the spirit of the Divine within you, rise from your sleep of ignorance! Be sober and thoughtful. Realize that your home is not on the earth but in the Light. Why have you delivered yourselves unto death, having power to partake of immortality?

There is no happiness for the soul in the external worlds since these are perishable, true happiness lies in that which is eternal, within us.

Suffering in search of truth gives true meaning to the truth.

Know thyself deathless and able to know all things, all arts, sciences, the way of every life. Become higher than the highest height and lower than the lowest depth. Amass in thyself all senses of animals, fire, water, dryness and moistness. Think of thyself in all places at the same time, earth, sea, sky, not yet born, in the womb, young, old, dead, and in the after death state.

Never forget, the words are not the reality, only reality is reality; picture symbols are the idea, words are confusion.

By living a life based on wisdom and truth, one can discover the divinity of the soul, its union to the universe, the supreme peace and contentment which comes from satisfying the inner drive for self discovery.

Those who live today will die tomorrow, those who die tomorrow will be born again; Those who live MAAT will not die.

Conceal your heart, control your mouth. Beware of releasing the restraints in you; Listen if you want to endure in the mouth of the hearers. Speak after you have mastered the craft.

Compared with the Egyptians, the Greeks are childish mathematicians." - Plato

The study of the wisdom teachings should be a continuous process in which the teachings become the predominant factor of life rather than the useless and oftentimes negative and illusory thoughts of those who are ignorant of spiritual truths.