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Wisdom Quotes
"Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!"
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"The first years of man must make provision for the last."
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"The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived."
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"The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world without sentimental artifice. Emotional detachment provides for clarity of vision."
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"The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward."
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"Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn't last forever."
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"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."
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"Knowledge is strength, understanding is mastery, and wisdom is power."
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"Humans need fantasy to be human."
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"Nothing is absolute, everything is relative."
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"In every problem, there's a concealed solution...locking itself underneath...unlock,peruse,find and solve."
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"Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds."
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"Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and powerlust to find the satisfaction you crave."
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"The wise have two arms, and yet can grasp many things, and have two eyes, and yet can perceive many things."
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"Troubles teaches us what we must know."
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"The enlightened are superior to the learned."
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"Wisdom comes from education and experience-not from age."
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"He who knows ignorance well shall least know understanding well, he who knows understanding well shall surely know and understand ignorance well."
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"The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability."
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"Don't condemn what you can't comprehend."
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"Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it."
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"Patience is the food of understanding."
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"Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up."
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"Whenever you can't balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict."
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"The tender spring upon thy tempting lipShows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their primeRot and consume themselves in little time."
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