Wisdom Quote by Richard Saul Wurman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.”

“We're on the same boat but in different cabin”

“Consciousness is existence itself — one stream, one field, one song. Many currents, many blooms. Endless possibilities, endless joy, endless excitement.”

“In the process of unearthing the root causes of everything around him, Tushar earned a satisfying taste of purposeful beauty: both the beauty of ordered complexity in nature and the beauty of contemplating that ordered complexity, the former encapsulated by Einstein when he said 'The great miracle of physics is that there are no miracles' and the latter embodied by Spinoza when he uttered 'The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

“What you are trying to let go of”

“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been to see [The Double Life of] Véronique. She'd gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul. She hadn't known before, but now she knew that the soul does exist. There's something very beautiful in that. It was worth making Véronique for that girl. It was worth working for a year, sacrificing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing yourself, killing yourself, taking thousands of decisions, so that one young girl in Paris should realize that there is such a thing as a soul. It's worth it.”