Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom. --John Mark Green (in Three Stories of Healing and Transformation)

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. --E.F. Schumacher (in Finding Right Livelihood)

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in The Man Who Wasn't There: Explorations at the Edge of Self)

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. --Francis Bacon (in No Better Place to Meet Yourself)

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
And between the two my life moves.
--Nisargadatta Maharaj (in The Monk, the Butcher & the Origins of Deep Counting)

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. --Lao Tzu (in Insight-Out: Guiding Rage into Power)

A man of wisdom delights in water. --Confucius (in Wells of Living Water)

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. --Henri Frederic Amiel (in Advice from 100-Year-Olds)

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in Brian Conroy: The Art of Storytelling)

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors wisdom. --Maya Angelou (in Burned Pages Don't Lie: A Genealogy Search)

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
--Confucius (in The Seed Wheel Turns)

Today we celebrate light and honor the wisdom of the shadows. In connecting with the natural world in a way that honors the sacred immanence in all things, we establish a resonance with the seasons. --Dacha Avelin (in A Solstice Invitation)

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. --George William Russell (in Oncology Yoga: Tapping into the Wisdom of the Body)

If we are to work together more intelligently, we will need to choose processes that evoke our curiosity, humility, generosity and wisdom. --Margaret Wheatley (in Solving Complex Problems Relying on Diversity and Inclusion)

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. --Khalil Gibran (in Their Irrepressible Innocence)

We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Soul of Medicine)

Wisdom is dangerous. Love and beauty are too. Our culture has kept us away from them, and must do so to perpetuate the insanity we see all around us. --Nikos Patedakis (in Horse Medicine, Horse Mystery)

Substitute attention for preparation. Then you'll be working in real time. Focusing attention in the present puts you in touch with a kind of natural wisdom. --Patricia Ryan Madson (in Fishing Before You Know How to Fish)