Quotes About Wisdom

The difference between science and philosophy is that the scientist learns more and more about less and less until she knows everything about nothing, whereas a philosopher learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything. There is truth in this clever crack, but, as Niels Bohr impressed, while the opposite of a trivial truth is false, the opposite of a great truth is another great truth.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

Don't let a suitcase filled with cheese be your big fork and spoon.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

When I close my eyes for the last time, an entire library of instructions for genuinely rewarding living will go with me.

The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

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You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

integral sayings of Zen Buddhism is, 'Do the best you can and then walk on.