Wisdom Quotes

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

More childish valorous than manly wise.

They call my love immature, naive and foolish, as if, wisdom made a better lover out of them.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one’s selfish greed.

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.