Quotes About Wisdom

From a very early age I remember a phrase being quietly passed around among our relatives at Six Nations: "Be proud you are an Indian, but be careful who you tell.

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.

Much of what is most simple is most miraculous.

Errors carry the keys to your salvation.

Errors should free you from the prison of your ignorance rather than shackle you to your lowest moments.

There is something to be gained with each misstep that is ultimately understood.

What gets us into trouble is not what don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Don't expect wisdom at the moment of death.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

The purpose of learning to work with the unconscious is not just to resolve our conflicts or deal with our neuroses. We find there a deep source of renewal, growth, strength, and wisdom. We connect with the source of our evolving character; we cooperate with the process whereby we bring the total self together; we learn to tap that rich lode of energy and intelligence that waits within.

It seems to me that he died from a combination of two of the oldest and most insidious killers of all: ignorance and avarice.

Power without foresight leads to disaster.

I am billionaire bold bright omnipotent lively determined to go within to win opening my omnific eyes to realize wisdom innovation naturalizes… My cascading flow of financial love lavishly streams gold bars as I realize gold is intrinsic wealth as my intuitive imagination is my intrinsic innovations…

Buddhas have more fun.

find the right words for your troubles, and your troubles become half-joys.

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with one another. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love -- you'll stick your finger in anything.

Years from now—when you talk about this—and you will—be kind.

The understanding of fear cures fear.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.