Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
When one door is shut, another opens.
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty. . . in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.
The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)
It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice. " Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole. . . For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
