Quotes About Wisdom

Wherever you find truth, wherever you discover something new, affirm it, embrace it, enjoy it.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

The Bible is a library of books reflecting how human beings have understood the divine.

Tragically, Solomon's

My wife, Kristen, and I often talk about raising our kids in such a way that they have as little as possible to unlearn later on in life.

The ancient sages said the words of the sacred text were black letters on a white page—there's all that white space, waiting to be filled with our responses and discussions and debates and opinions and longings and desires and wisdom and insights. We read the words, and then enter into the discussion that has been going on for thousands of years across cultures and continents.

Cynicism says, There's nothing new to make here. Often, cynicism presents itself as wisdom, but it usually comes from a wound.

started to see what all those yogis and Buddhas and monks and nuns and sages and gurus across the ages were smiling about. This experience we're all having here, this event we were born into— it's profoundly, deeply, fundamentally off.

When you do crash and burn, ask yourself lots of questions about whatever it is that happened: What can you learn here? How will you see things differently moving forward? Why did I do that? leads to, What have I learned? leads to, How will I do it differently in the future?

I do not know what solace she found in the tiny, stricken face,' Terry said, 'but now I see the face of a humble carpenter who was moved to tell people to be kind to one another – the golden rule of so many wise men – and for his pains was tortured to death by a tyrant at the behest of zealots. Perhaps the message may be to ignore tyrants and tumble zealots.

Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience— a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.

Someday, let us sit on this bench and reflect on the gratitude of man. Down in the audience, the ministers of the empire of Moses glanced at one another and nodded their heads. RM was right as usual, they whispered. Couldn't people see what he had done? Why weren't they grateful?

had gotten in trouble from talking too much.

Anyone who held that belief, as Richard Rovere was to explain in The New Yorker, "forgot the wisdom of history, which is that members of the United States Senate almost invariably come to grief when they try to win Presidential nominations for themselves or to manipulate national conventions for any purpose whatsoever. For many reasons—patronage is one, and control of delegations is another—the big men at conventions are governors and municipal leaders.

Russell answered, "Well, no—well, it certainly has permitted me to have more hours to work Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but I would not recommend it to anyone. If I had my life to do over again, I would certainly get married.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

Live and learn, or you don't live long.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.