Quotes About Wisdom

There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intellegence.

It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth.

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You can't create experience, you undergo it.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.