Quotes About Wisdom

I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. It

Great thinking comes from a great mind

But in Johannesburg I found that many of the most outstanding leaders had never been to university at all.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead,

have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go on ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

In my language there is a saying: "Ndiwelimilambo enamagama" (I have crossed famous rivers). It means that one has traveled a great distance, that one has had wide experience and gained some wisdom from it.

tenían ese gran respeto por la educación que tan a menudo muestran quienes carecen de ella...

Decisions should not be taken out of pride or embarrassment, but out of pure strategy.

Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf.

For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

Life, like all games, becomes true, when one realises it is a game.

Light People bring clarity, not confusion.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and turn away from evil. This will bring health to your body and strength to your bones.

the kind of life-fatigue she occasionally glimpses in the eyes of the very, very old.

One never read of Zen masters being taken in by scams. They didn't crave anything, and, therefore, con artists couldn't set the hook.

perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

Then the patience borne of seventy years of disappointments came to his aid;

You could have done something with newspapers. We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indecent assault, and no Government was wise enough to stop us having them that way. But something might have been done with newspapers, if we'd been wise enough.

For the Lord seeth not as a man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." The heart is the primary organ of sense, hence the first cause of experience. When you look "on the heart" you are looking at your assumptions: assumptions determine your experience. Watch your assumption with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. Assumptions have the power of objective realization.

Education is not accomplished by putting something into man; its purpose is to draw out of man the wisdom which is latent within him. May the reader call Bartholomew to discipleship, for only as this quality is raised to discipleship will you have the capacity to conceive ideas that will lift you beyond the limitations of man.

The next two who are called are also related. These are the brothers, James and John, James the just, the righteous judge, and his brother John, the beloved. Justice to be wise must be administered with love, ever turning the other cheek and at all times returning good for evil, love for hate, nonviolence for violence.

The future must become the present in the imagination of the one who would wisely and consciously create circumstances. We must translate vision into Being, thinking of into thinking from. Imagination must center itself in some state and view the world from that state.