Quotes About Wisdom

St. Thomas Aquinas said it neatly and powerfully centuries ago: "Things known are in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

Generalizing grossly, what Buddhists mean by practice is more interior and personal, while what Christians mean is more external and social. Or as Aloysius Pieris puts it, in their practice Buddhists stress prajna or wisdom, and Christians stress agape or charity.

And this power in their teaching had to do, first of all, with the content of what they taught – that is, with the way "what they said" made clear "what really is.

Jesus was such a powerful, "saving" Teacher because he was what he taught.

If the bath water is dirty, it can be thrown out without losing the baby!

The person I am with a seventy-year-old body (and all its accumulated experience) will not only look but will truly be different from the person I was with an eighteen-year-old body. Same person but – thank God – so different!

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Shut your eyes in order to see.

Brave as you may be, wise even as you may be, you tremble when the earth trembles. That is a sensation common to everybody and which no one would ever deny.

Do what you like, so long as it is intelligent.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Only by understanding the past may we free ourselves from its tyranny.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

The ideal of Taoism was to live in harmony with the Tao and to cultivate a simple and frugal life, avoiding unnecessary action: "Being one with nature, he [the sage] is in accord with the Tao.

You can never really know that Scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.

The mere adding of years to life is not living.

Nikdy nep?erušuj nep?ítele, když se dopouští omylu.

I know everything I know about.

My God, Cale, if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone— never, not in all the history of the world. And no one who ever gave such warnings and was proved right ever got any good out of it.