Quotes About Wisdom

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.

El tiempo es tu vida; ni más, ni menos. La manera cómo gastas las horas y los días es la manera como gastas la vida.

Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see," said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years. "That's true," she said. "But only because most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power. They fear a change of the world order.

If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.

us measure progress not by what is discovered but rather by the growing list of mysteries that remind us of how little we really know.

Twain said: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain said: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

A total synthesis of all human knowledge will not result in huge libraries filled with books, in fantastic amounts of data stored on servers. There's no value any more in amount, in quantity, in explanation. For a total synthesis of human knowledge, use the interrogative.

philosophers are premature ejaculators who decant too soon, spilling their seminal genius to no effect.

There are two kinds of fools: one who says this is old and therefore good, and the other who says this is new and therefore better.

that's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise.

Really tapping into our inner vision and inner child might not make us happier or better adjusted, but it might make us appreciate just how smart we really are.

When Max Planck began studying physics at the University of Munich in 1874, his teacher, Philipp von Jolly, warned him that it was already a mature field, with little more to learn.

Any board-room sitter with a taste for Wall Street lore has heard of the retort that J. P. Morgan the Elder is supposed to have made to a naïve acquaintance who had ventured to ask the great man what the market was going to do. "It will fluctuate," replied Morgan dryly.

where perspicacity is weakened,

conclusions:

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

You don't bother to memorise the literature—you learn to read and keep a shelf of books.

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

intelligence and wisdom aren't the same.

There is no barrier so strong as that of ignorance.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.