Quotes About Wisdom

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: 'The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.

My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often

On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.