10 Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Wisdom

Swami Vivekananda quotes on wisdom

17. When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before.

27. You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

42. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

44. 'Comfort' is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being 'comfortable.'

52. All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.

94. I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

98. If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word 'fearlessness.'

108. Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

109. Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.

186. When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were, only we shall understand the whole thing.