A Quote by Michael R. Burch
Epigrams delight us into wisdom.
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Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.
My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring--delight , sadness, joy, wisdom--and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.
We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!
There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.
Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest? Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He told us, He created us in his own image and likeness.
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