Becoming Wise Quotes

• What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

  Epictetus

  Wise, What Matters, Care

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• Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Wise, Wish, Becoming

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• The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

  Evan Esar

  Wise, Wisdom, Becoming

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• Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

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  Ram Dass

  Wise, World Suffering, Training

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.85, Harmony

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• We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Wise, Powerful, Distance

  "The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa".

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• The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Wise, Wisdom, Children

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.360

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• But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.

  M. Scott Peck

  Wise, Spiritual, Ideas

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