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Wisdom Quotes
"It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals."
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"Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance."
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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
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"Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go."
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"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
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"Who can tell us how to get along with each other better than God? Where can we turn for wisdom better than God's Word, the Bible?"
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"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
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"Regular and concentrated training makes an expert."
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"Most of the world's problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters."
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"Before asserting a prognosis on any patient, always be objective and never subjective. For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life, but then later discovering that he will lose, will harm him more than by telling him that he may lose, but then he wins."
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"(So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him."
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"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
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"It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it."
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"This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand."
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"Once you face the truth, the knowledge both empowers you and sets you free."
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"...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own."
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"Begin to grow in wisdom and develop an informed approach to more global issues around you and along your path to success and significance."
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"There is no point in housing troubles inside your underwear if you can't solve them by yourself."
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"Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment."
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"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward."
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"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."
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"Develop your character, there is no need to be concerned about reputation."
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"Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration."
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"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
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"But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"
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"There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later."
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"Ignorance and power, they re a poor combination."
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"Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."
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"The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own."
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"Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witch queen. She was wiser by far than any short-lived human, but she had not the slightest idea of how like a child she seemed beside these ancient beings. Nor did she know how far their awareness spread out beyond her like filamentary tentacles to the remotest corners of universes she had never dreamed of; nor that she saw them as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.But they expected nothing else: she was very young."
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"He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages."
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"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."
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