Wisdom Quotes
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You will find the truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It's a living process.
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
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Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
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Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
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Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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There is no need to condemn yourself in any way, or to elate yourself, but just be your Spirit. The best way to be with your Spirit is to forgive.
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Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.
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I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.
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The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.
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The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
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To think that the woman is dominated by man or man is dominated by woman comes from a kind of a complex and this complex must be given up. You are complimentary to each other. You decorate each other. Never talk ill of your husbands and never talk ill of your wives. This is the key of having an exclusive married life.
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Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
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... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
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Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
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Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.
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So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)
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New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
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The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
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Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations - and seen them die, and seen new ones born again - Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.
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Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
