WISDOM

Omar N. Bradley
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about living.

Steve Bhaerman
Have you noticed that no being is ever satisfied? As hard as some disembodied entities are trying to get into bodies, those with bodies are trying to get out of theirs!

Ashleigh Brilliant
I’m shooting forward at the terrifying speed of 60 minutes per hour!

Edward R. Murrow
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only the end of the bar.

Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Mark Strand
Each moment is a place you’ve never been.

George Santayana
Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and we very well go together. 

Kennett Jiyu Roshi
If you’re afraid of being grabbed by God, don’t look at a wall. Definitely don’t sit still, alone.

Alan Cohen
• Being self-centered is healthy if you know who the self you are centered in is. 
• Seekers keep seeking, and finders keep finding. 

Georges Duhamel
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Tom Wilson
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Doug Larson
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Mark Twain
• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Peter Russell
Knowledge is the finalization of information, applying findings to other situations. Wisdom determines how knowledge is used. It involves discernment and evaluation: Is the decision for the better or worse? Will it help or hinder our future well-being? At present, humanity has vast amounts of knowledge, but still very little wisdom. 

Emmanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

George Carlin
• Well, if it is true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
• Have you noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron. 

Dainin Katagiri Roshi
Why don’t you just sit down and shut up. 

Kabir
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.

Lewis Thomas
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Authors Unknown
• Never make the same mistake twice or you’ll never get around to all of them. 
• Often wisdom of the body clarifies the despair of the spirit.
• Common sense is unfortunately not very common.