Wisdom Quotes
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.
We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.
Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
Love combined with wisdom is bliss, and that is devotion. Devotion is a strong bond, a sense of belongingness. Everybody is born with it. It’s just like becoming a child again
In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.
If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.
I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.
No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.
The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.
In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.
I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.
A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.
The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
