Quotes About Wisdom

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

After spending time around Donald Trump I find myself inspired by his vision, thought process, keen insight, and overall discipline. He's a brilliant thinker who tends to walk several steps ahead of the masses. I want to share his wisdom with the world in my own way.

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

I used to make snap judgments, moved quickly. It's more important to be thoughtful, think of the consequences of your decisions.

I like thoughtful girls.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Our best thoughts come from others.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Thoughts have no sex.

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

I've stopped taking myself seriously because now I understand how fickle my thoughts are.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

I remember my mum coming into my bedroom when I was lying awake one night, and she asked what I was thinking of... And I was telling her about the inventions I would invent, and she said, 'Can't you ever just think stupid thoughts?'