Quotes About Wisdom

Experience is never at bargain price.

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Maeniel felt this was why all the great sages never wrote anything down. In the final analysis, scriptures are futile things, dependent as they are on the intentions of the interpreter. All too often too literal a mind can lead human students into strange follies. Sometimes it is better to allow the searchers to try to plumb the depths of the great mystery on their own and accept that not every one of those taking the road will see the same end.

Oh yes, I admire books. I still do. They can preserve a truth for twice a thousand years and teach it to any who has the skill and cares to read it. They can also fix a lie in stone forever. But worse still, they—the books—can be about nothing at all. Nothing real.

Humans, in their blindness, think intelligence has one path - theirs.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

He doesn't know anything," said Klein. "That's his trouble. He's clever, but he doesn't know much. I guess he only began to read books a couple years ago. They excite him too much. He wouldn't read a fairy story. He'd think he was wasting time.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

I've lived a thousand lives just by reading a book

In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. If we choose instead to content ourselves with intellectual "wisdom," we will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

You will receive in flashes a new knowledge in language you won't know.

I'm told that I'm Wisdom, but how would I know?

Jung sentia que é preciso passar, confrontando-os, pela nossa Sombra e pelos demônios reprimidos (complexos) do nosso inconsciente pessoal, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, somos ajudados e curados pelos conteúdos arquetípicos do Inconsciente Coletivo. Para ele, está acumulado nesse último uma 'riqueza' de sabedoria de toda a vida desde os primórdios. Sua linguagem está presente nas mitologias e religiões do mundo e nos fala por meio de figuras e símbolos arquetípicos.

As mulheres têm um incrível acesso à força e à sabedoria naturais se deuxadas por conta própria.

Onde Júpiter está, há interesse pela excelência e pela abordagem 'clássica' ou universal da vida.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.