Famous Quotes About wisdom

Weve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life- process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where its going.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of Love; and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.

This planet can be made a happier, more peaceful place to live, but the change will have to come from within the hearts of all of us living here.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book and dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.