Quotes About Wisdom

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

I definitely dish advice out more than I get it.

With time, I've learnt that personal likes or dislikes don't count a lot.

I think disparaging something you don't understand, while a very normal thing - I expect more from serious people.

Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

We would look quite distinctive from what we were like in our 20s. Back then, we put emphasis on our youth, ambition and passion.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.

I learned at 50 that there are things that are not my department. Distribution is one of those things.

I'm trying to learn to ask myself: 'Before you dive in are you sure you are right?' It's always safe to assume I'm wrong.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.