Quotes About Wisdom

Duality makes us believe that making good decisions and avoiding bad ones is all-important. Buddha disagrees—he says that getting out of duality is all-important, and you'll never escape as long as you keep burying yourself deeper into the game of "A-or-B?" Reality isn't A or B. It's both and it's neither.

Quiero conocer los pensamientos de Dios … el resto sólo son detalles. — Albert Einstein

Words are not brains, you know.

A cierta edad- afirmó Lewis Thomas cierta vez -,está en nuestra naturaleza desgastarnos, caer en trastornos y morir y eso es todo.

Life is too short to learn everything by experience," Mattis told reporters after the event. "In these books we can find situations that are similar to what we confront today. ... We can study how women and men in the past have dealt with situations successfully or unsuccessfully."

The great (American-definition) liberal Lionel Trilling wrote in 1948 that "we must be aware of the dangers that lie in our most generous wishes," because "when once we have made our fellowmen the objects of our enlightened interest [we] go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion."18 Every mother knows the dangers. And when she loves the beloved for the beloved's own sake, she resists them.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Don't pay attention to those who offer too much.

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions.

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

There are many secrets; don't try to resolve them all.

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.