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Wisdom Quotes
"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
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"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."
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"The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid."
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"A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather."
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"If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise."
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"All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on."
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"I never seemed to learn from joy, I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness."
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"To understand the universe, look deep into your heart."
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"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
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"Half a brain is better than none."
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"It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly."
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"Books have more useful things to say than fools."
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"Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew."
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"When most major Protestant denominations have their annual councils, assemblies, or conventions, they make pronouncements on matters having to do with disarmament, federal aid to education, birth control, the United Nations, and any number of social and political issues. Very rarely are any resolutions passed that have to do with theredemptive witness of the Gospel."
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"Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life, isn't that so, Fatma?"
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"There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity."
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"If size really mattered, the whale, not the shark, would rule the waters."
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"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."
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"Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness."
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"The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great."
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"I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them."
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"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
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"The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. If evil means to be self - motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth clichés lent us from the so - called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race."
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"Through memory to knowledge on the way to stars that are stepping down to the stuffy rooms of modern bureaucrats, illuminating their ceilings, their horizons where everything is easily resolved by the piles of paper and recipes for how to live, create, run, eat, breathe, learn how to love, how to make love, how to sleep, how to dream, how happiness is achieved under the artificial stars of the new sky that emerged from the bureaucratic rooms of aspiring and impotent minds, unable to love, even though they had all their life to learn what they preach."
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"You can't measure a person by model year, you have to measure that personby their mileage."
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"He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism."
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