Wisdom Quotes - Page 68

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

No man is wise enough by himself.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

"if a rock falls on another rock on the other side of the moon, how does Islam explain it?" "Who Cares?"

Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers. There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life's turbulent current. Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose. It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

Wisdom: Knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. That implies some change ... and change can be difficult.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a certain degree of substantiality, however different it may be from all ordinary matter.

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.