Quotes About Wisdom

Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgement; and what is there short of the other, that can replace the creatures of the Lord?

Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

The second component of intelligence involves the elegance of interpretations of the experiences of life.

For life is short and the art of writing books is very, very long.

What did the Dalai Lama say when he got an electric shock? Ohm.

Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

Maybe that's why young people make success. They don't know enough. Because when you know enough it's obvious that every idea that you have is no good.

I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.

I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time.

I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

When I am old, I hope to remember sadness unequivocally.

Woe to our time, for the study of letters has perished from among us.

Time to plant trees is when you're young, So you will have them to walk among - So, aging, you can walk in shade That you and time together made.

This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.

He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.

If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.