Wisdom Quotes

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God’s point of view.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.

Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.