Quotes About Wisdom

My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

I always think that age is a natural progression, and I'm ready for it. Whatever. I'm going to be the best 85-year-old that I can be if I'm still around.

The trouble was that I tried to prolong my youth.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't stay too long. I would get out at the top of my career and not be one of those guys who's body had started to go away and sag and look like and old man trying to still make a living.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

They usually say as you get older, you can't get better, but that's not true. I'm living proof.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

I have had my share of relationships and broken hearts, so there has been a proper balance in life.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.

I am not a prophet.

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

I was reading 'The Prophet' on my own when I was 10 years old.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

Don't marry the first person that proposes to you!

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.