Quotes About Wisdom

each of the best minds ends by making fairy tales

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

Only the ignorant would believe that things exist in the way that they appear.

Accustomed to the habit of gathering a little of what I have heard. If [what I have written] somehow enters the door of a wise person, intent on learning, Then the fruit of my labor will have been achieved. For the smiles of the stupid and the approval of the rich, I have never yearned even in my dreams. When

Porque mientras mejor entendamos la Biblia, más preparados estaremos para aplicarla

La lectura sin la meditación es infructuosa; la meditación sin la lectura es dañina; meditar y leer sin orar por ambas no da bendición[14].

La mente de Dios y la Palabra de Dios son mucho más amplias que nuestras propias perspectivas y Él nos llevará a través de la Biblia para orar con entendimiento por cosas que están mucho más allá de las mismas cosas de siempre.

If a man write little, he had need have a great memory."[12]

What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you've finished, you can't recall a thing you've read? It's better to read a small amount of Scripture and meditate on it than to read an extensive section without meditation.

To read the Bible and not to meditate was seen as an unfruitful exercise: better to read one chapter and meditate afterward than to read several chapters and not to meditate.

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.

The best leaders never stop learning.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

It doesn`t hurt to get more education.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

Keep uppermost in your mind that the illusion that you experience is an illusion, that it is surrounding you for the purpose of teaching you. It can only teach you if you become aware of its teachings.

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.

We know a tremendous amount about how the world works, but not nearly enough. Our knowledge is amazing; our ignorance even more so. We can improve our understanding, but we can't make it perfect.

God grant us the serenity to exercise our bounded rationality freely in the systems that are structured appropriately, the courage to restructure the systems that aren't, and the wisdom to know the difference!