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Wisdom Quotes
"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"
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"Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities."
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"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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"A wise man does not follow the crowd. He follows his own light."
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"A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently."
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"The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord with the entire world can a person distill happiness that flows from cultivating a state of mindfulness."
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"If you are unaware of what's within, you will be shown in the mirror of your near future life experience. Wiser to keep a step ahead."
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"These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be."
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"Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices."
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"Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization."
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"It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house."
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"Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective."
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"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well."
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"If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence."
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"Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought."
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"Observing is the basis of wisdom."
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"Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all."
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"We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two."
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"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."
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"The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach:The Ogre cannot master speech.About a subjugated plain,Among it's desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips."
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"A little thinking is a dangerous thing."
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"A confident woman knows that forgiving is important, but sticking around for constant abuse isn't being confident; it is called being a doormat."
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"Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new."
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"In Egyptian Arabic, the word 'insan' means 'human'. If we remove the 'n', the word becomes 'insa', which means 'to forget'. So you see, the word 'forget' is taken from the word 'human'. And since it was God who created our minds and hearts, He knew from the very beginning that we would quickly forget our history, only to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. So the ultimate test of every human is to seek wisdom. After all, wisdom is gained from having a good memory. Only after we have passed this test will we evolve to become better humans. Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God - He sees, hears and remembers everything."
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"We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him."
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"Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult."
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"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
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