wisdom

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

"why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives."

"All knowledge hurts."

"TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty."

"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully."

"Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good."

"Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage."

"The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you."

"You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger."

"Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace."

"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"A man without words is a man without thought."

"Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance."

"Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"

"It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise."

"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."

"I can’t use my intellect to figure out how to bypass my intellect. Love lies through the spirit, not the mind, and love never lies."