Wisdom Quotes - Page 30

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you.

Worry about Allah and what He wants you to do and He will take care of your worries.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Prana is implicate to matter but explicate to mind; mind is implicate to prana but explicate to soul; soul is implicate to mind but explicate to spirit; and the spirit is the source and suchness of the entire sequence.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.