Quotes About Wisdom

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.

A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the powers out of which his angels are made, and is the most powerful and the brightest of them all.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

My parents gave me a practical example of what life was about, and I won't forget that.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

What you know is what you know, both culturally and practically, and you use it to the greatest effect you can.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

In life, there are always intense battles, and yet we must practise the lessons from the Gita.