Quotes About Wisdom

Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!

At the higher realms of rationality, even reason can begin to appear irrational.

When I was thirty I began my life; at forty I was self-assured; at fifty I understood my place in the vast scheme of things; at sixty I learned to give up arguing; and now at seventy I can do whatever I like without disrupting my life.

conscientia,

read a story about a Zen seeker who goes to the master and sits across the table at tea time. The Zen master holds a stick in his hand, and he says, "If you drink your tea, I will hit you with this stick. If you don't drink your tea, I will hit you with this stick." So what do you do? Well, I think I figured it out. Take away the stick.

I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.

If you speak, say little and speak low; don't shout. Truly, this is a most useful saying! — St. Bernardine of Siena,

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Truth without the way to truth is dead.

il confine è il luogo migliore per acquisire conoscenza.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.

A maturidade bíblica nunca é apenas a respeito do que você sabe; é sempre sobre como a graça tem empregado o que você veio a saber para transformar a maneira como você vive.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

The sacred mystery of the ECK lies in the initiation of the Ninth Circle

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.

I think of the presence and of the habits of mortals in this so fluid stream, and reflect that I was among them, striving to see all things just as I see them at this very moment. I then placed Wisdom in the eternal station which now is ours. But from here all is unrecognizable. Truth is before us, and we no longer understand anything at all.

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed?

Une philosophie doit etre portative.