Quotes About Wisdom

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. Neither one alone without the other under it will do.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

We shall be known by the delicacy of where we stop short.

I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. –

why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

Lenea este mama tuturor viciilor, dar fiind o mam? ea trebuie respectat?

In three words I can sum up everything I've

Magic is Wisdom in Transit, for there's no black or white Magic. Its just Wisdom in Transit.

I had not taken the first step in knowledge; I had not learned to let go with the hands, As still I have not learned to with the heart. And have no wish to with the heart—nor need. That I can see. The mind—is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind— Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master.

Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Don't Believe Everything You Think!

Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.