Quotes About Wisdom

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.

There is no god higher than truth.

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

All religions are true but none are literal.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

Your mind is your religion.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.