Wisdom Quote by Chaim Potok — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.”

“> Why does everything that lives have to die?”

“Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.”

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”

“...fight every battle everywhere, always, in your mind. Everyone is your enemy, everyone is your friend. Every possible series of events is happening all at once. Live that way and nothing will surprise you. Everything that happens will be something that you’ve seen before..”

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.”

“Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.”

“MOM”