Quotes About Wisdom

I've flung a fly myself, he continues. I'm still learning it. I suppose we're all still learning. You learn and learn and then you die and you haven't learned half of it.

What it says is that when going against your teenage child's wishes, the greatest wisdom is to say what you have to say, do what you have to do, and then stop—because they will not. An overwhelmingly valuable skill in the parenting of today's teenagers is learning to disengage—sooner rather than later.

So we teach them how to sit still, how to obey bells, how to make insipid clichés pass for thought, how to be "subversive" in trivial and uniform ways, how to think "outside the box" of tradition and wisdom and into the stainless steel cage of the politically "correct," how to extend the political pinky while sipping the political tea.

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion.

We do not know what or how to teach children, because we do not know what a child is, and we do not know what a child is, because we do not know what man is -- and Him from whom and for whom man is.

The sage's point was that life was uncertain and no one should be counted happy till the day of his death.

As Cicero drily put it: "We must apply to our fellow-countrymen for virtue, but for our culture to the Greeks.

we have learned from them the beginnings of life and have gained the power not only to live happily but also to die with a better hope.

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, for example, had been about twenty-nine

virtue outweighs everything and even if the good man is not supremely happy, he is on balance happy.

Fox as Hedgehog

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

Unii povestesc c?, în timp ce Socrate p?r?sea curtea, un admirator devotat, dar cam n?tâng, a început s? se vaite, cel mai greu de suportat pentru el fiind faptul c? Socrate a fost condamnat la moarte pe nedrept. «Cum, r?spunse Socrate, încercând s?-l lini?teasc?, ai fi preferat s? fiu condamnat în mod drept?»

was "to try always to master myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.

Don't ask the way of those who know it, you might not get lost.

How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

You're never too young to die.

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go.

There were books everywhere, hundreds of them on shelves that had been designed to fit into every nook and cranny, and it goes without saying that anyone who collects books can't be all bad.

One can think of the truth as eine vertiefung – a sort of deep valley which may not be visible from a distance but which will come upon you quite suddenly. There are many ways to arrive there.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells. - Frederick Chase