Profound Knowledge Quotes

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and classbooks, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.

The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is not a violation of the laws of Nature, except for ignorant people. Magic is but a science, a profound knowledge of the Occult forces in Nature, and of the laws governing the visible or the invisible world. Spiritualism in the hands of an adept becomes Magic, for he is learned in the art of blending together the laws of the Universe, without breaking any of them and thereby violating Nature.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.