Quotes about Wisdom

What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have hap-pened at all. If we have only one life to live,we might as well not have lived at all.

Suspending moral judgement is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity. Not that the novelist utterly denies that moral judgement is legitimate, but that she refuses it a place in the novel.

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.

Love is a lesson worth learning.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love.

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Love is the weapon of the wise.

Approach every difficulty as if it were sent to you at that moment and in that way to teach you something you need to learn so you can continue moving forward.

Read in your field for at least one hour every day.