Quotes About Wisdom

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!

Time is making fools of us again.

Give away everything you know, one bite at a time.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.