Quotes About Wisdom

The very act of mentoring changes and matures the mentor as well as the mentee. This is the reason it's so important to encourage mentees to mentor others. Unless and until they mentor others, the mentoring process is of limited value.

the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

Yet i say to you, do not rush to marriage for it is a deep and perfect thing. Test first, that you may be certain you are called to it by love, and not simply by pleasures of the flesh which will consume themselves and leave only ashes and misery

The whole key to life is discovering things for yourself. What you do with that discovery is what lies on the other side of that door.

We find that, all along, we had what we needed from the beginning and that in the end we have returned to its essence, an essence we could not understand until we had experienced the actual heartbreak of the journey.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious.

It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.

They call it kintsugi. The pot is shattered, then carefully reassembled with a resin mixed with gold. It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

It would have been a good occasion to smoke a pipe had I owned one and had I been forty years older.

We understand at some level why combat veterans shrink from sharing their stories: we don't want to know them. In our sometimes-frenzied veneration of war heroes, we are too eager to rush past the shadowed doorway where lurks what the poet Peter Marin calls "the terrible and demanding wisdom" of war.

Jesús no comenzó a predicar el reino de los cielos hasta después de haber recibido la plenitud del Espíritu Santo. Solo entonces pudo llevar a cabo su ministerio en tres años y medio con gran poder y autoridad. Al darnos cuenta de esto, ¿cómo nos atrevemos a pensar que nosotros seríamos capaces de realizar la obra de Dios solo con poder y sabiduría humanos?

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [...] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world [...]

What did the mystic say to the hot dog vendor?" Sophia's eyebrows pulled together. "I don't know, Isaiah, what did the mystic say?" "Make me one with everything.

Forgive me for not being willing to hear your call until now, dear Lord. But I am here and I am ready. Direct me to where I should next go. Reveal to me how I should next serve you. Grant me the wisdom and the strength to trust you in all things. Wherever you lead. Whatever task you set. Help me, Lord.

Live a life of rightness. Seek to follow the blessed Lord, and pray for enlightenment for others.

His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

And for the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.

The poet William Butler Yeats said, "We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.