Seungsahn Haengwon Quotes

People are not stupid.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Intelligence is not a science.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

I like to say understanding is the power.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

I'd like to be very wise.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

I'm not very wise to many things.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.