Quotes About Wisdom

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If we are not spiritually wise in managing our souls, how can we help making a wreck of ourselves?

Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, are puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.

The practice of the Name turns us in the direction of the light. The practice of the Name removes the dust from our eyes so that we can see the world as it really is: lit up by the light of the guru.

Attachment is the root cause of suffering, dear child. This is well known to you. Fix yourself in that knowledge now and take heart.

Indeed, no one should see too much of their own history or future.

I am learning there is much more to the world than can be plainly seen.

Listen very hard and follow your heart. Your heart is good. It's your brain that gets you into trouble.

The thing is done; it can't be undone. How can one go back and change a moment passed? Even a moment that should never have come. I fear with the deed I have lost not only my virtue but my life as well. For of all life's betrayers, the heart is the worst. It flutters with joyful anticipation, leading down paths better untrod. Now that I know my heart, I must never follow it again.

Zoey: Wait! Don't go yet. I have so many questions. Nyx: Life will reveal to you the choices you must make to answer them.

Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

Menns lærdom kommer av bøker, kvinners av naturen

In ogni caso va usato il buon senso che – e non solo in montagna – vale più della teoria, soprattutto se conti di tornare a casa a raccontare la storia.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

Napoleon said, 'When your enemy is doing something stupid, don't interfere.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

All the same, said the Scarecrow, I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one. I shall take the heart, returned the Tin Woodman; for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Zixi made no reply, but she agreed with the alligator, who called after her sleepily, Isn't it fortunate we cannot have everything we are stupid enough to wish for?

There lived here then, away at the North, a beautiful princess, who was also a powerful sorceress. All her magic was used to help the people, and she was never known to hurt anyone who was good. Her name was Gayelette, and she lived in a handsome palace built from great blocks of tourmaline. Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.

Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.

Can't you give me brains? asked the Scarecrow. You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.