Quotes on Wisdom

The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.