25 Quotes On Wisdom
Wisdom is usually a deep understanding and realizing of individuals, things, events or situations, creating the ability to choose or act to consistently produce the optimum results with a minimum of time and energy. It's the capacity to optimally (effectively and efficiently) apply perceptions and knowledge and thus produce the required results.
All great wisdom begins if we realize unfortunately we cannot termed as very much like we believe we do. Many folks believe they have all of it worked out, and that they already know everything in regards to the world and the way it truely does work. This really is activities like a surface amount of understanding which is undoubtedly the biggest mistake people make over and over.
Plainly said you have a subconscious mind as an example, to be sure you should reply by saying you already know this. But this is how the condition lies, we never get below the top level of understanding because we never contemplate, probe, analyze and get how this fact can, and does, have a very major have an effect on the way you perceive types. To know we've got a subconscious mind is too simplistic, we need to delve a lot deeper to get a clearer understanding from what that in some way means.
We can read the sunday paper once and understand it, but to read it all the time will give us a better understanding because of the brains filtering process. And we don't adopt and consciously collect all the information at first sight. If you think it is all exercised, you can not more mistaken. Be available to new options for seeing things, never think you have enough knowledge on a subject as you will be closing your brain away and off to future learning. Be ready to get more information than you are already aware and keep an objective balance.
Below I am going to list 25 of the most useful quotes on wisdom that I have come across in recent times. Do you like them above all, Lets hope they resonate to you enough to obtain thinking in the right way. Thinking you realize something is certainly not when compared with "knowing" you recognize very little.
Here goes...
1)... "Help us to find God."
"No one can help you there."
"Why not?"
"For the same reason that no one can help the fish to find the ocean." ~ Anthony De Mello.
2)... Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
3)... What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you ~ Anthony De Mello.
4)... Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it ~ Henry Beecher.
5)... He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom ~ James Huneker.
6)... If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe ~ Lord Salisbury.
7)... Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8)... In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool ~ Lord Chesterfield
9)... Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance ~ Anthony De Mello.
10)... The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
11)... The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing ~ Socrates
12)... To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not ~ Akhenaton
13)... Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that ~ Martin Luther King, Jr
14)... It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer ~ Albert Einstein.
15)... Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form ~ Buddha.
16)... To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth." ~ Anthony De Mello.
17)... A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master.
"People say you are a genius. Are you?" he asked.
"You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly.
"And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?"
"The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being." ~ Anthony De Mello.
18)... I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~ Umberto Eco
19)... We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ~ Samuel Smiles.
20)... Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it ~ Andre Gide.
21)... The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or obtain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are - as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy ~ Bo Lazoff.
22)... Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair ~ George Burns.
23)... It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense ~ Robert G. Ingersoll.
24)... When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years ~ Mark Twain.
25)... "Tell me," said the atheist, "Is there a God - really?"
Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer."
Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered.
"Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master.
"So you are an atheist?"
"Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it ~ Anthony De Mello.
All great wisdom begins if we realize unfortunately we cannot termed as very much like we believe we do. Many folks believe they have all of it worked out, and that they already know everything in regards to the world and the way it truely does work. This really is activities like a surface amount of understanding which is undoubtedly the biggest mistake people make over and over.
Plainly said you have a subconscious mind as an example, to be sure you should reply by saying you already know this. But this is how the condition lies, we never get below the top level of understanding because we never contemplate, probe, analyze and get how this fact can, and does, have a very major have an effect on the way you perceive types. To know we've got a subconscious mind is too simplistic, we need to delve a lot deeper to get a clearer understanding from what that in some way means.
We can read the sunday paper once and understand it, but to read it all the time will give us a better understanding because of the brains filtering process. And we don't adopt and consciously collect all the information at first sight. If you think it is all exercised, you can not more mistaken. Be available to new options for seeing things, never think you have enough knowledge on a subject as you will be closing your brain away and off to future learning. Be ready to get more information than you are already aware and keep an objective balance.
Below I am going to list 25 of the most useful quotes on wisdom that I have come across in recent times. Do you like them above all, Lets hope they resonate to you enough to obtain thinking in the right way. Thinking you realize something is certainly not when compared with "knowing" you recognize very little.
Here goes...
1)... "Help us to find God."
"No one can help you there."
"Why not?"
"For the same reason that no one can help the fish to find the ocean." ~ Anthony De Mello.
2)... Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
3)... What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you ~ Anthony De Mello.
4)... Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it ~ Henry Beecher.
5)... He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom ~ James Huneker.
6)... If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe ~ Lord Salisbury.
7)... Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8)... In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool ~ Lord Chesterfield
9)... Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance ~ Anthony De Mello.
10)... The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
11)... The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing ~ Socrates
12)... To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not ~ Akhenaton
13)... Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that ~ Martin Luther King, Jr
14)... It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer ~ Albert Einstein.
15)... Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form ~ Buddha.
16)... To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth." ~ Anthony De Mello.
17)... A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master.
"People say you are a genius. Are you?" he asked.
"You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly.
"And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?"
"The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being." ~ Anthony De Mello.
18)... I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~ Umberto Eco
19)... We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ~ Samuel Smiles.
20)... Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it ~ Andre Gide.
21)... The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or obtain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are - as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy ~ Bo Lazoff.
22)... Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair ~ George Burns.
23)... It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense ~ Robert G. Ingersoll.
24)... When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years ~ Mark Twain.
25)... "Tell me," said the atheist, "Is there a God - really?"
Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer."
Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered.
"Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master.
"So you are an atheist?"
"Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it ~ Anthony De Mello.