Rajneesh Quotes

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

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

The wise are wise only because they love.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.