Quotes About Wisdom

Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

The bedrock theory I am referring to is the Theory of Reality, which states: Reality is neither the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Either you acknowledge reality and use it to your benefit, or it will automatically work against you.

My attitude was unyielding, solidly backed by the wisdom of the Bluff Theory, which states: The secret to bluffing is to not bluff.

no secrets, no mystery. no mystery, no life worth rememberin'. no life worth rememberin', no life worth goin' on.

if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

This is an important test of maturity: to seek to avoid error, to accept the consequences of error when it comes (as it surely will), and learn from it and to wipe the slate clean and start afresh, free from feelings of guilt.

To the worldly, servant-leaders may seem naive; and they may not adapt readily to prevailing institutional structures. The

Knowledge is but a tool. The spirit is of the essence.

A man at my age would make a poor lover," he advised a minister in London who had suggested that approach. "Alas, my scepter governs no more.

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.

There is no greater burden than to be cursed with knowledge.

The thing about smart mother fuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy mother fuckers to stupid mother fuckers...

Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose. -Carl Grimes

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Success is a poor teacher

But, always remember, children, that power alone is not the full measure of strength. Wisdom and skill are just as needed." -Maia, The Clarion Call

it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

History was a crystal ball that told as much about the future as it did about the past.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." Texas senator Lyndon Baines Johnson was