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Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (65)
If an intelligent man be associated for one minute only with a wise man, he will soon perceive the truth, as the tongue perceives the taste of soup.
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (391)
No man who down upon the earth and upon tables is wise.
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.26)
The wise man should not disturb and confuse the minds of the ignorant attached to action. By performing all actions with yogic equanimity, they...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (2)
Yea, the wise prefers the good to the pleasant, but the fool chooses the pleasant through greed and avarice.'...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Conclusion (25)
Thus all creatures are relatively ignorant yet relatively wise; comparatively nothing yet comparatively all. The microscope reveals to man his...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (242-251)
Cleverness is as a wind raising storms of pride; Be foolish, so that your heart may be at peace; Not with the folly that doubles itself by vain...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (105)
A man can search into its will, and know what it willeth, or how it is: For it proceedeth in the sweet quality, and the light riseth up in the sweet...
Katha Upanishad
Third Vallī (6)
'But he who has understanding and whose mind is always firmly held, his senses are under control, like good horses of a charioteer.'
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (69)
Where is a man (who is) wise or powerful in intelligence, or a man whose devices are many because he knows wisdom? Let him speak wisdom; let him...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: The Use of Philosophy to the Gnostic. (14)
The only wisdom, therefore, is the God-taught wisdom we possess; on which depend all the sources of wisdom, which make conjectures at the truth.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.21)
By knowing Him only, a wise Brahman should get for himself intelligence; He should not meditate upon many words, For that is a weariness of speech.
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (160)
Therefore, O Child of man! have a care, trust not too much upon worldly wisdom, it is blind, and is born blind; but when the flash of life is generate...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (25)
My son, do not swim in any water, and do not allow yourself to be defiled by strange kinds of knowledge. Certainly you know that the schemes of the...
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching (33)
He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty. He...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter X: Steps to Perfection. (13)
All the action, then, of a man possessed of knowledge is right action; and that done by a man not possessed of knowledge is: wrong action, though he...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (11)
He who believes not, has already made himself a willing captive; and he who changes his persuasion is cozened, while he forgets that time...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (54)
The wisdom which is born of discernment is starlike; it discerns all things, and all conditions of things, it discerns without succession:...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (7)
Endeavour to be great in the estimation of divinity, but among men avoid envy. The wise man whose estimation with men was but small while he was...
Chaldean Oracles
Ideas. (44)
For Intellect existeth not without the Intelligible; apart from it, it subsisteth not.
Katha Upanishad
Third Vallī (13)
'A wise man should keep down speech and mind; he should keep them within the Self which is knowledge; he should keep knowledge within the Self which...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What True Philosophy Is, and Whence So Called. (12)
And if, too, the end of the wise man is contemplation, that of those who are still philosophers aims at it, but never attains it, unless by the proces...
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