Quotes About Wisdom

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Paper knowledge, paper evaluations, paper degrees all too papery and all too theoretical; it has very little that prepares us for real life in the real world.

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent woman. I like the fact that the things that make her feel beautiful are more than just her face; it's who she is, and I live by that same theory. There are things I want to achieve in my life intellectually that make me feel beautiful.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

Any therapist can give you the expertise of their education, but we all know there's that person in our lives that's been like, 'Hey, one time I did this thing,' and that will stay with you for so much longer than the stuff that probably should, because it's from direct experience.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.