Quotes About Wisdom

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

seorang guru tidak akan pernah bisa benar-benar mengajar kecuali dia sendiri masih belajar; sebuah lampu tidak akan menyalakan lampu lain kecuali ia terus menyala dengan apinya sendiri

he who has the knowledge has the responsibility to impart it to the students.

He alone may chastise who loves.

Ah! How we all love to be deluded! We have a secret dread of being thought ignorant. And we end by being ignorant after all, only we have done it in a long and roundabout way.

All my work and all my dealings with people feel very easy. Actually, everything is simple. There is one straight road - if you open your eyes you can go along it. I don't see the need to search for all sorts of clever short cuts. Happiness and sadness are both on the road - there is no road that avoids them - but peace is found only on this road, nowhere else.

YOUR speech is simple, my Master, but not theirs who talk of you.

Man can destroy and plunder, earn and accumulate, invent and discover, but he is great because his soul comprehends all.

human society is a web of mistakes; nobody has the sense to do the right thing at the right time, and when the chance is gone we break our hearts over vain longings.

We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth. And our unsophisticated little hearts knew well where the Crystal Palace of Truth lay and how to reach it. But to-day we are expected to write pages of facts, while the truth is simply this: "There was a king.

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a guest.

MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.

The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.

When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring science of our own. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth.

he feared that the flame of a prayer lamp that illuminated the home could also set the house on fire.

La verdad no está de parte de quien grite más

The one who plants a tree knowing he may never sit in its shade has learnt a little about life.

the testing of truth has not been carried out once and for all by a group of learned men in some past age; truth has to be discovered anew through the blows and opposition it encounters from the people of every age.

The infinite is with us in the beauty of our childhood, in the strength of our youth, in the wisdom of our age; in play, in earning, and in spending.

Leemos mal el mundo, y decimos luego que nos engaña.

When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring science of our own. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth. And our unsophisticated little hearts knew well where the Crystal Palace of Truth lay and how to reach it. But to-day we are expected to write pages of facts, while the truth is simply this: "There was a king.

The Yogi dyes his garments with red: but if he knows naught of     that colour of love, what does it avail though his garments be     tinted?

We must know with absolute certainty that essentially we are spirit.

My flower, seek not thy paradise in a fool's buttonhole.