All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“Those who are in the flesh cannot please God since they depend on their own strength, knowledge and wisdom. But those who are in-Christ understands that they must walk, live and set their minds on the Spirit.”

“A beautiful face doesn’t make your heart beautiful,But a beautiful heart always projects you as a beautiful person.”

“The insane human mind is the greatest scientific instrument known to mankind.”

“Here where North, the night, the berg of deathCrowd me out of the ignorant darkness,I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.”

“He spoke fluently and unceasingly. He could in this way be one thing and seem another: for instance, he could speak of love and think of dinner; call on the husband to look at the wife; be eager to pay and intend to owe.”

“We cannot help those who do not desire it.”

“AWARENESS IS THEOCEAN FLOOR,THINKING THESURFACE.SPIRITUAL SEEKERTHE DIVER,NONSEEKER THESWIMMER”

“I could offer any number of reasons. I could talk eloquently on the subject for days on end, until my tongue was sore, only to find there was still more to say, yet more answers clamoring for attention. Experience tells me that too many answers are the same as none at all; perhaps only one can constitute a real answer. So I will supply just a single explanation, one that I think may be the most important; whether it is the true answer is impossible to know. It’s your experience while growing up, I believe, that shapes the direction of your life. A basic image of the world is planted deep in your mind, and then, like a document in a copy machine, it keeps being reprinted again and again throughout your formative years. Once you reach adulthood, whether you’re successful or not, whatever you accomplish can only partially revise that most basic image; it will never be entirely transformed. Naturally some revise the image more and some revise it less. Mao Zedong, I’m sure, made more revisions than I have done.”

“High and mighty guzzlers, and you, O all you precious pox-ridden—while you have the leisure and I have nothing else more important to do, let me ask you a question: why does everybody say, as if it were proverbially true, that the world is no longer flat? Understand, please, that “flat” here means “without zest, unsalted, insipid, washed-out”: taking it metaphorically, it signifies “crazy, foolish, senseless, rot-brained.” Would you argue, as indeed one might logically infer, that if we say that the world has been flat, now we have to say that it’s become wise? What was it that made it flat? Why was it flat? Why should it be wise? What do you think ancient stupidity was? What do you think constitutes our present wisdom? What made it flat? What has made it wise? Are there more lovers of flatness or more lovers of wisdom? Just exactly when was it flat? Just exactly when was it wise? Who’s responsible for that earlier flatness? Who’s responsible for that later wisdom? Why did that ancient flatness end right now, and not at some other time? Why did our present wisdom begin right now, and not sooner? What harm did our earlier flatness do us? What good is this new wisdom? How did we get rid of our ancient flatness? How was our present wisdom brought about?”

“How complete, whole, undivided seeing comes about is a mystery. Any formulation or method we invent will eventually get in our way. It’s as if everything we learn must be instantly left behind.”

“If your priority is a cinema experience in your own home then you should buy a large screen television, if it is good sleep and health then you should buy a small screen television.”

“If we could stop gossiping and learn not to be offended, we could change the world in about 48 hours.”

“Debts written on the wind tend to be … forgotten”

“The will to solve problems inhabits only a few in this world. Lesser people are content with complaining, scapegoating, spilling blood…”

“A strike within the realm of the professional never justifies retribution in the realm of the personal”