Quotes About Wisdom

Looking at Guy, Harriet laughed and said: 'Freedom is the recognition of necessity'.

She does not attach much importance to passing events.' Harriet laughed. 'You have only to let them pass and they lose their importance.

Out in the street again, Harriet attempted philosophy: 'Wherever one is,' she said, 'the only thing certain is that nothing is certain.

We have to learn about love before we can learn about hate—otherwise everything goes to hell.

All the art of the old Japanese painters (who in almost all periods were monks) is explained if it is understood that, for them, the visible world was a perpetual allusion to Wisdom, like that great tree which, with unutterable majesty, says No to evil for us' (ibid.).

Oluwapelumi dada

Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

A hair divides what is false and true.

The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

The act of correctly seeing this world from this state of concentration (jyo) and the world of samadhi is called "wisdom." In other words, wisdom is the act of perceiving things of this world as they truly are.

think that the essential point of Zen lies in "proof," which is variously called "right awareness of no-self," "seeing one's original self-nature," and so on.

An ancient saying goes, "Spend three years without learning before you choose your teacher." We should select our teacher carefully enough before we become his disciple. Once we choose our teacher, we should follow him faithfully until we attain enlightenment.

The publication Koan Kaito Shu15 (The Collection of Answers to Koan)

His own clothes were simple but always clean and neat. When some hippies argued that this was not "natural," Omori said nothing but pointed to a nearby cat, busy cleaning and smoothing its fur.

Accordingly, if we put it in extreme terms, all types of Zen other than Patriarchal Zen are inauthentic. However, in a positive sense, it may be said that Zen Outside the Way (Gedo Zen), Common Zen (Bompu Zen), Zen of the Mouth and Head (Koto Zen), Literary Zen (Moji Zen), Zen for Health (Kenko Zen), Zen for Medical Treatment (Ryoyo Zen), and all the rest exist within the realm of Patriarchal Zen.

the mind of nondiscriminating discrimination which Master Bankei calls the Unborn Buddha Mind. He writes, "To see and hear things without any preparation to see and hear them is called Unborn Mind.

Further, to have concentration without wisdom is to idly come to a standstill in an empty world.

Thinking that a koan is something to be thought about and solved objectively is out of keeping with Zen teachings.

Wisdom originates in samadhi is what this sutra teaches us.