Quotes About Wisdom

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

My dad did a great job passing on what he learned from his career.

With every passing year, I feel more fulfilled.

With the passing of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, who had just entered his 100th year, the world has lost one of the greatest judges and jurists of all time and also a fine human beings. He used his extraordinary juristic and intellectual gifts to help everyone he could and to address all forms of human suffering.

Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.

do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

Onions are sacred to the Yezidis, perhaps because they have many layers and are thus "esoteric.")

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Peter Levenda

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

I believe in love and wisdom which have created life. I believe that they have the power to recreate the world. I believe that the living love and wisdom can change our life, our society and our homes. When we accept love and wisdom, truth and righteousness will come. The angels will descend from heaven and plant good fruits in our souls.

Love brings life, wisdom brings light and knowledge, while truth brings freedom.

Although we still live in an uncertain and violent world, it is important for us to be moving in the direction of a culture of love, wisdom, truth, justice and virtue envisaged by Peter Deunov.

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex—not that which never has divined it. —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. There

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

The best stock to buy is the one you already own.

The secret of his success is that he never went to business school. Imagina all the lessons he never had to unlearn.

Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out by just sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A

Invest in What You Know.

taking in information is only distantly related to real learning. It would be nonsensical to say, "I just read a great book about bicycle riding—I've now learned that.

De weduwe kuste haar vingers en legde ze daarna tegen mijn voorhoofd. 'Zet Sasja uit je hoofd,' zei ze. 'Leef je leven op de plek waar je bent.