Quotes About Wisdom

It has wisely been said that grace is God's acceptance of us, while faith is our acceptance of God's acceptance of us.

Youth rebels and age conserves; between them, they advance.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.

If you are stupid enough to dine with the devil, for Christ's sake use a long spoon.

True genius, Churchill taught us, resides in the capacity to evaluate conflicting information.

Seen through the eyes of Arab alchemists, or Persian mystics, the earliest Greek philosophers weren't just thinkers or rationalists. They were links in an initiatory succession

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

We are old-timers,each of us holds a locked razor.

Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.

Past fifty, we learn with surprise and a sense of suicidal absolution that what we intended and failed could never have happened— and must be done better.

Who can help us from our nothing to the all, we aging downstream faster than a scepter can check?

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.