Quotes About Wisdom

Take counsel with Nature: she will say that she made both day and night for you.

We should follow our own humour more in dying than in any other business.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

In short, somewhere inside you there is a Machiavelli. Yes, he is a ruthless manipulator; but no prince, especially a kind one, would stay in power long without at least one advisor with as remorseless a point of view as that of the enemies a prince will surely have. The trick is to listen well but keep Machiavelli in his place.

To Jung, the unconscious contains important wisdom to be learned. A life lived in deep communication with the unconscious is far more influential and personally satisfying.

My favorite line from Captain Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation is, "I have made some fine mistakes in my life." It is so humble, wise, and self-confident, all at once.)

My favorite line from Captain Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation is, "I have made some fine mistakes in my life." It is so humble, wise, and self-confident, all at once.

This greater awareness of the subtle tends to make you more intuitive, which simply means picking up and working through information in a semiconscious or unconscious way. The result is that you often "just know" without realizing how.

Psychotherapy in its broadest sense is a collection of paths toward wisdom and wholeness.

Part of maturing into wisdom is transferring more and more of your sense of security from the tangible to the intangible containers.

While it is wise to accept what we cannot change about ourselves, it is also good to remember that we are never too old to replace discouragement with bits and pieces of confidence and hope.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it." For some of us that curriculum is the equivalent of graduate study at Oxford!

In other words, expand your use of your giftedness beyond producing the most noticed ideas at work. Use it to attain greater self-insight and to gain wisdom about human beings in groups and organizations.

Or as one friend of mine put it, 'In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

Libraries are forever.

As Neil Gaiman said, "Google can bring you back a hundred thousand answers; a librarian can bring you back the right one.

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day -- wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.