Quotes About Wisdom

By harnessing the collective intelligence in the room, we can make decisions that are much smarter than those made by individuals.

Your thoughts are incredibly powerful. Choose yours wisely.

The brain thinks, but the heart knows.

When compassion becomes unconditionally ordinary and familiar for you, you have progressed from knowledge to experience to wisdom.

Knowledge without experience is merely philosophy; experience without knowledge is ignorance.

El propósito del alma es aprender de la experiencia y adquirir sabiduría, pero si te has quedado atrapado en una emoción, nunca aprendiste de la experiencia, no superaste esta emoción ni la transformaste en conocimiento.

We do not even know that we don't even know.

What the BLEEP Do We Know!?

Absorbing knowledge (knowing) and then gaining practical experience by applying what you learned until a particular skill became ingrained in you (knowing how) is probably how you acquired most of the abilities that now feel like a part of your being (knowingness). In much the same way, learning how to change your life involves knowledge and the application of that knowledge.

cuanto más aprendas sobre el «qué» y el «porqué», más fácil y eficaz se volverá el «cómo».

Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people?

This is an easy thing in the eyes of the LORD"2

This is an easy thing in the eyes of the LORD.

remember from my own

And the knowledge of how to stay sane in this rapidly worsening situation can seem hard to come by - as if it's hiding away from our crude, self-obsessed, materialistic culture. Consequently many people live and die without ever knowing such wisdom exists, (though perhaps it was never withheld from those who sincerely sought it).

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Maturity is not something that happens all at once. It is not a border between two countries where once you cross the invisible line, you are on the new soil of adulthood, speaking the foreign tongue of grown-ups. It is more like a distant broadcast, and you are driving toward it, and sometimes you can barely make it out through the hiss of static while other times the reception momentarily clears and you can pick up the signal with perfect clarity.

Terry is sure that Ig has never even kissed another girl, let alone fucked one, and he has wished for a while now that Iggy had more experience. Not because Terry didn't want his brother to be with Merrin, but because...well, because. Because love requires context. Because first relationships are by their very nature immature. So Merrin wanted them both to have a chance to grow up. So what?

Don't believe everything you hear today

He had won it as a child, playing Scriptural Jeopardy in his Sunday-school class. When faced with answers from the Bible, Ig had all the right questions.

Getting old is no way to stop being young.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

I'm not questioning your bravery. I'm questioning your intelligence.

Every thought I have is colored by what I learned by what I learned from reading Ray Bradbury.