Quotes About Wisdom

Unlesses can get us out from under the forces that will keep us playing in the short run, chasing a win, and align our behavior more closely with our long-term best interests.

A lot of experience can be an excellent teacher. A single experience, not so much.

But there is one aphorism that actually encourages people to quit: Quit while you're ahead. Just as so many of those inspirational quotes lauding unlimited persistence are bad advice, this single piece of pro-quitting wisdom, despite surviving for more than four hundred years, is no better.

TED Talk, "The Pursuit of Ignorance.") In the book and the talk, Firestein

We can't just "absorb" experiences and expect to learn. As novelist and philosopher Aldous Huxley recognized, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." There is a big difference between getting experience and becoming an expert. That difference lies in the ability to identify when the outcomes of our decisions have something to teach us and what that lesson might be.

Quitting on time will usually feel like quitting too early. If you quit on time, it's not going to seem like anything particularly dire is happening at that particular moment. That's because quitting is a problem of being able to glimpse at the range of ways the future might play out and see that the likelihood that things will turn out poorly is too high to make it worth your while to continue.

Aldous Huxley recognized, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Good quotations, like good thoughts, are true wealth.

Son corps est jeune et sa pensée vieille.

One cannot see the future of something learned.

El saber común se ampliaba, un saber despreocupado y sin consecuencia del que, a diferencia de la escuela, solo teníamos que rendir cuentas en la conversación

Elle écoutait avec attention tous les gens qui parlaient de ce qu'elle ignorait, par curiosité, par envie de montrer qu'elle était ouverte aux connaissances. S'élever, pour elle, c'était d'abord apprendre (elle disait, "il faut meubler son esprit") et rien n'était plus beau que le savoir. Les livres étaient les seuls objets qu'elle manipulait avec précaution. Elle se lavait les mains avant de les toucher.

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

Only a stupid golfer throws his club behind him. The smart golfer throws his club ahead so he can pick it up on the way to the next hole. Always remember: Golf clubs don't float

God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all.

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.

Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

There's a thin line between talking to yourself and arguing with an idiot.

True words are not always pretty; pretty words are not always true.