Quotes About Wisdom

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.

a twinkle in her eye. "Someday I may be old too!

We have shown that the substance and object of religion is altogether human; we have shown that divine wisdom is human wisdom; that the secret of theology is anthropology; that the absolute mind is the so-called finite subjective mind.

awareness of our mortality causes pain because our most deep-seated need is for permanence and our most pervasive fear is separation from those we love. The Psalmist tells us that there is wisdom in the awareness that our days are numbered (Psalm 90:12). But in that awareness lies pain as well.

Those who have spent time arguing instead of studying things as they are show all too clearly that they are incapable of seeing much at all.

Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.

Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.

Everybody is guilty of mistakes and of serious mistakes, and the contemplation of these mistakes must darken, be it ever so little, the last years of existence.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Whatever cannot be seen, conceived at once, thru simple reasoning is humbug, and not science!

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.