Quotes about Wisdom

Live as if you living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

We are living in an age of specialists but sometimes a specialist is a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of fact.

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

The value of education is among the greatest of all human values.

This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me—as you judge me—from my fluency.

To know the truth—to accept without bitterness

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

Knowledge comes through suffering.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.