Quotes About Wisdom

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Indeed, men who manage to defeat time by anxiously safeguarding their tomorrow, by not allowing it to stray anywhere from the past, have in effect conquered death itself.

The most skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

What we know through a connection with the Self is divine wisdom.

Objective knowledge can be learned through teachers, books, or observation of something outside of ourselves. Gnostic or noetic (an alternative spelling) knowledge is what is revealed to us or intuitively perceived as spiritually true. I think of gnosis as what we "gknow" at a soul level, it's what we know "in our bones.

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.

Once caught, the jig is up; whining is conduct unbecoming a crone.

lo que el mundo actualmente necesita es una inyección de la clase de sabiduría que las mujeres tienen

La psique de una mujer Atenea es similar al aspecto no convencional de los vestidos "de buen tono": prácticos, duraderos, de calidad permanente y no influidos por los cambios de la moda.

But as Ram Dass once said, you know, if you think you're enlightened, go spend a weekend with your parents.

Her mother chose to martyr herself to some domestic goddess routine that everybody else in the world had wised up to long ago.

When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.

we use math not because we're smart, but because we aren't smart enough.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

you've either got a brain or you haven't. If you have, then you don't need me to spell things out to you. If you haven't, there's no point in talking to you.

If one knew there would be enough then one wouldn't grab. That was another thing that was bad about the way we used to be. It was all grab grab grab while one could in case tomorrow one couldn't.)