Wisdom Quotes

"The way I have come to think about it is that we are all susceptible to the inconsistencies in our own minds."

"We are rationalizing creatures more than we are rational ones."

"We are all walking contradictions trying to maintain the illusion of consistency."

"The person who can acknowledge contradiction shows greater psychological strength than one who cannot."

"The mind protects itself first; truth is secondary."

"We are comfortable with contradiction only when the contradictions are not about ourselves."

"Dissonance is the psychological equivalent of physical pain; it signals that something needs attention."

"The discomfort of acknowledging error is why error persists for so long."

"We justify our behavior first; understand it second."

"The person who admits their contradictions is closer to truth than one who denies them."

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force."

"The mirror of your life is the people you surround yourself with."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"Don't think, look! The answer lies in how we live."

"In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit."

"The confusion which possesses us is like the confusion of a man in a library."

"One thought too many makes the whole picture false."

"The task is to show the fly the way out of the bottle."

"I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness."

"I want to say things that sound like nonsense but are not."

"The good is certainly something noble. But can it be taught?"

"All the propositions of our everyday language are in order as they are."

"The Master observes the world but trusts his inner vision."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"The Master knows that he knows nothing."

"Those who cling to their beliefs do not understand."

"The more you know, the less you understand."

"A moment of clarity is worth a thousand days of confusion."

"The wise man is not learned; the learned man is not wise."

"The Master is opaque; the ignorant are transparent."