Hal Borland Quotes

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

The wise speak only of what they know

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

CONTEMPLATE THE workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you.

When facts speak, the wise man listens.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

Wonder is retained by wise pondering.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.