Quotes About Wisdom

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

Quien no conoce su historia está condenado a repetir sus errores.

Do what helps others. Refrain from harming others. Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion. This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.

Muddleheadedness has always been the sovereign force in human affairs—a force far more potent than malevolence or nobility. It lubricates our hurtful impulses and ties our best intentions in knots. It blunts our wisdom, misdirects our compassion, clouds whatever insights into the human condition we manage to acquire. It is the chief artisan of the unintended consequences that constitute human history.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

It is too clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, He could have cooked his rice much sooner.

If you meet a fencing-master on the road, you may give him your sword, If you meet a poet, you may offer him your poem. When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend. Never give the whole thing at once.

When asked to perform a miracle, a Zen master responded: "My miracle is that when I feel hungry I eat, and when I feel thirsty I drink.

I will sing from the sage's chair by the Norn's sacred spring; I watched and listened, I looked and thought about the words of the wise when they talked of runes and what they reveal at the High One's hall, in the High One's hall— here is what I heard… HÁVAMÁL (SAYINGS OF THE HIGH ONE), POEMS OF THE "ELDER EDDA

Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; a man's heart is seldom happy if he is truly wise. Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; if you can't see far into the future, you can live free from care.32

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.

People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.

Elders say that too much technology makes us slaves all over again.

Only priests are wise enough to fear, rather than covet, the gifts the gods may give.

Too thick to drink," as the boatmen used to say about the water of the Mississippi River, "too thin to walk on.

It was extraordinary, Ahmed thought, how men distinguished in one field – and he assumed that Pandit Baba Sahib was distinguished – seemed to claim for themselves wisdom in all spheres of human activity; wisdom and the right to make pronouncements which they expected you to listen to and learn from.

I am an old man. I am entitled, am I not, to say what I think?—and of course to stray from the point.

Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you'll never know the secrets; and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high schoolIt's a wonder I can think at all.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

when you reach a point where you can distinguish between the things you thought you wanted and the things you actually need, that is an epiphany.