Quotes about Wisdom
The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.
- Paulo Coelho
Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.
- Paulo Coelho
The grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things.
- Paulo Coelho
Hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently
- Paulo Coelho
Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our soul, our eyes will grow bright.
- Paulo Coelho
The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.
- Paulo Coelho
You don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago.
- Paulo Coelho
But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us
- Paulo Coelho
Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional in this life. Secondly, using this sudden change of course to risk new things in daily life, to do things you always dreamed of.
- Paulo Coelho
Knowledge is an illusion. Ecstasy is the true reality. Knowledge fills us with guilt. Ecstasy allows us to be one with he who is the Universe, before it existed, and after it has been destroyed.
- Paulo Coelho
A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry. Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.
- Paulo Coelho
Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.
- Paulo Coelho