Quotes About Wisdom

There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.

Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

We teach what we need to learn.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

Consult your spirit, your soul on everything.

The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

This shows you are never too old to get surprised.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed.