Flame of Wisdom

Believe those who are seeking the truth;

doubt those who find it.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

To know when to be generous

and when firm—that is wisdom.

The truest greatness lies in being kind,

the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

One's first step in wisdom is

to question everything -

and one's last is

to come to terms with everything.

We are made wise

not by the recollection of our past,

but by the responsibility for our future.

Too bad that all the people

who really know how to run the country

are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

Almost every wise saying

has an opposite one,

no less wise, to balance it.

It is characteristic of wisdom

not to do desperate things.

Science is organized knowledge.

Wisdom is organized life.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;

wisdom lies in their simplification.

Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding

that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine,

familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side,

learning by letting them speak to one another.

But goodness alone is never enough.

A hard cold wisdom is required, too,

for goodness to accomplish good.

Goodness without wisdom

invariably accomplishes evil.

A short saying often

contains much wisdom.

Wisdom is the

supreme part of happiness.

Whatever is at the

center

of our life

will be the source

of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling.

A seedling which is

never hardened off through

stressful situations

will never become

a strong productive plant.

Good people are good

because they've come to wisdom through failure.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.