Quotes on Wisdom

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

People are scared to empty their minds_x000D_ _x000D_ fearing that they will be engulfed by the void._x000D_ _x000D_ What they don't realize is that_x000D_ _x000D_ their own mind is the void.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

Everyone has his own conscience,_x000D_ and there should be no rules about_x000D_ how a conscience should function.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.