Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind. "
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.
Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.