Quotes About Wisdom

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: Not going all the way, and not starting.

Do yourself a favor. Don't keep going back to the scene of the crime. It'll just buy you trouble.

I think the best happened for me, too. You, naturally. But a lot of other useful lessons, as well.

She was everything he avoided—youth, innocence, inexperience. And she had everything he wanted—guts, wisdom and compassion.

the good Lord in his infinite wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable – hope, jokes and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. So

I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

One continues to learn things in life, then promptly forget them.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

But how will we learn from our mistakes if we don't make any?

The way i figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

But how will we learn from our mistakes if we don't make any?

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Think with your head and not your heart. Love with your heart and not your head.

It is better to choose to know the painful truth rather than settle on a comforting lie. Resolve to look for and to accept the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Nothing built on lies lasts.

The first part of saving your life is coming to understand how you endangered it by loving wrongly, and living under the rule of your passions.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain a child forever," said Cicero.

But truth cannot be separated from tears. To live in truth requires accepting suffering.

The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

All our troubles, if we carefully seek out their source, derive in some way from not knowing how to make a proper use of time," says Dante in his Convivio.

Tamás glances down at the floor of his Budapest living room. "We have so many problems today because fathers never talked to their sons as my father did to me in 1963.

old Russian proverb, beloved by Solzhenitsyn: "One word of truth outweighs the whole world.