Quotes About Wisdom

Proverbs 21:23: "Watch your words and hold your tongue; you'll save yourself a lot of grief" (MSG).

The words of the godly are a life-giving fountain" (10:11 NLT).

While seeking revenge, dig two graves — one for yourself.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.

Edwards taught that "most ... are to blame" for their "inattentive, unobservant way of reading" this gift of heaven. "The word of God contains the most noble, and worthy, and entertaining objects, ... the most excellent things that man can exercise his thoughts about." Those who had truly "tasted the sweetness" of God's Scriptural divinity ought to live out their days, he said, in "longing for more and more of it."126

On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.

Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much . . . the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others…

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

If we could live for a million years, then maybe it would be worthwhile to create some problems. But our life is short. Now you see, we are guests here on this planet, visitors who have come for a short time, so we need to use our days wisely, to make our world a little better for everyone.

Eroticize intelligence.

I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.

T.S. Elliot: "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.'" "Oliver Wendell Holmes,

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. " —Arthur Schopenhauer "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." —Niels Bohr, Nobel Laureate & Quantum Physics Pioneer