Quotes on Wisdom

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.