Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is the ability to realize that everyone has their own dharma, everyone goes their own way. What works for you is not the ultimate good. Know that other people have different way.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.

There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.

This world only brings things apart that come together, and brings things together that weren't together.

Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity. That is wisdom.

The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.

The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.

Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.

There is wisdom to loving.

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth.... but wisdom sneaks in through the ears.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless; you have to hear it.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

Authentic power is the energy that Is formed by the intentions of the Soul. It is the light shaped by the intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

One flower makes no garland.

Pleasing ware is half sold.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.]

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!