Quotes About Wisdom

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

So during the rainy season the prudent person carries an umbrela, while the reckless person does not and, of course, gets wet when it rains. Prudence is not precise knowledge, but a willingness to adapt to circumstances in the shortest possible time.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henri Bergson

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can't know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

There was nothing to be gained in speaking to the evil, and everything to lose.

They fed him a diet made up entirely of knowledge.

The wise say many things, enough to confuse the rest of us

One of the things I've learned over the years by observing human nature is that anger will almost always cause you to make mistakes.

I'm not getting old," Harry said, "I'm already old.

Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed.

I remembered Nero telling me once that smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them.

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We've been wed nigh sixty years, now. If that young man is worth your love, dear, don't you let him get away! 'Tis a great comfort, to love one man for so many years. You'll see.

All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered.

We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.

Revelation also comes in receiving greater understanding of the endowment as one seeks to comprehend its meaning.

Freedom goes with suffering. Truth, wisdom, and knowledge of reality go with suffering.

Warren Buffett once put it: "The most important thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

When it comes to money, just having heard of something isn't enough; you've got to know what it means.

It's not what you know about money—it's what you don't know that can wipe you out.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.