Innate Wisdom Quotes

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Everything is within your power,
and your power is within you.”
― Janice Trachtman, Catching What Life Throws at You: Inspiring True Stories of Healing

“Natural understanding can take the place of almost every degree of culture, but no culture can take the place of natural understanding. The scholar has the advantage of such men in the possession of a wealth of cases and facts (historical knowledge) and of causal determinations (natural science), all in well-ordered connection, easily surveyed; but yet with all this he has not a more accurate and profound insight into what is truly essential in all these cases, facts, and causations. The unlearned man of acuteness and penetration knows how to dispense with this wealth; we can make use of much; we can do with little.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea

“A wisdom as constant as the North Star shines within all of us. It is always present. waiting to be tapped, waiting to guide us, to advise us. We need only use it to prevent its atrophy. No matter what our background, profession, color, or religion, employing this universal compass, this innate sense of what we know to be true, will help us establish a lifelong foundation - a place we go to recover our sanity and to regain our balance.”
― Nancy Cobb, In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living

“Itaque inter omnis omnium gentium summa constat; omnibus enim innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deos.”
― Cicero, Philosophische Schriften

“Like the good spirit, ready to convict us, knowing is looking right at us, waiting for our inner space to surrender ourselves to the need of it,” the young lady said. “Knowing things outside of the things we are allowed to live is possible. We just need to be aware about the possibility of ‘What if?’ It is that simple. But if we judge others based on the fact that what happened to them hasn’t happened to us, we allow ourselves to know only one thing. And that is to not know anything. And then our state of consciousness is only aware of one thing.

“And that is the life we live. We go about our ways with eyes that bypass the hurt that underlies the physical tears others walk with, yet we still feel the need to mention the absence of our tears to prove their sinful manner of living. Our minds become the ears and the eyes with which we judge what we should know differently. This is according to our rationalized state of consciousness. We simply overlook the suffering of others because we ourselves suffer as well from the lack of knowing it. That part I get it. When your sister buries her dear child, please mourn from the heart. You don’t have to bury someone to know death is painful. In fact, he should never be anyone’s eye, let alone you.”
― Tabitha Biel Luak, What a Godly Privilege to Be Born a Man

“A human is a quantum supercomputer that has the ability to comprehend, master, and lead things on earth and in the skies. The point is to learn how to enable those abilities within and reach the maximum potential of our innate abilities.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“By living my innateness, I am abundant, full of radiance, and can unlock the great secrets of life”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“One cannot learn what cannot be taught.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life