Quotes About Wisdom

Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now, The place to be happy is here, The way to be happy is to make others so. Wisdom is the science of happiness.

LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

Indeed, there are two times for most important statements or accusations: the expressive time, when we feel inwardly impelled to say or do them, and the impressive time, when they would be most helpful to their recipients. It is only in very mature and rightly beloved people that these two times regularly coincide.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong pace, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Young people err through ignorance; but older people err through oblivion to dramatic but simple truths, learned and forgotten a hundred times. The ignorance of the young has the inviting vacancy of the outdoors; but the oblivion of the old is a noxious void behind a sneer of wisdom.

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.

Lord, give me the guidance to know when to hold on and when to let go and the grace to make the right decision with dignity

As F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

As Warren Buffett once said, "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

Free advice is worth the price.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

I don't have all the answers. (...) Let me be really clear about that.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

People perish. Books are immortal.

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

So few things we need to know. And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack. Like renunciation. Like the melancholy beauty of giving it all up. Like walking steadfast in the rhythms, winter light and summer dark. And the time for cutting furrows and the dance

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.