Wisdom Quotes - Page 16

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst - you need them both.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

Burn worldly love,
rub the ashes and make ink of it,
make the heart the pen,
the intellect the writer,
write that which has no end or limit.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.
Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.