Wisdom Quotes

"I have discovered the pearl of great price."

"I submit to the superior wisdom of the Apostles."

"It is one thing to know the will of God, and another to do it."

"Beware of the little old women who whisper: life is not a struggle."

"In the end things must be as they are and have always been—the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, and the delicacies for the refined."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity; those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity."

"One should not make things more difficult than they are."

"The man who sees two or three generations is the truly wise."

"Modesty is often the mask of the ambitious."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas."

"The deepest pain teaches the deepest wisdom."

"The human mind is not capable of being fully satisfied by any worldly possession."

"Wisdom is seeing things as they truly are."

"Pride is the enemy of wisdom and growth."

"The divine nature is as much in the smallest creature as in the largest."

"The world is as you think it to be."

"True knowledge comes from direct experience, not mere words."

"The heart is the seat of all knowledge."

"Man is a mirror of the divine."

"All suffering is a gateway to understanding."

"The true self emerges when ego dissolves."

"The heart perceives what the mind cannot grasp."

"The light of consciousness illuminates all darkness."

"To seek outside yourself is to lose yourself."

"All knowledge that does not lead to love is vanity."

"All limitation exists in the mind alone."

"The heart is deceitful above all things; we must guard it with utmost vigilance."

"We deceive ourselves when we think our thoughts are our own."

"The human heart is a factory of idols, constantly manufacturing false gods."