Quotes on Wisdom

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

The very highest is barely known._x000D_ _x000D_ Then comes that which people know and love,_x000D_ _x000D_ Then that which is feared,_x000D_ _x000D_ Then that which is despised._x000D_ _x000D_ Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

True depth of understanding is wide and steady,_x000D_ _x000D_ Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering,_x000D_ _x000D_ Words of wisdom are precise and clear

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform,_x000D_ _x000D_ Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

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.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Appearances often are deceiving.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.