Quotes About Wisdom

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

My life is a reading list.

Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernhard Shaw

One of Bob's aphorisms," says Stickgold, "is that for every two hours your brain spends taking in information during the day, it needs an hour of sleep to figure out what it means. If you don't get that hour, you don't figure it out. The difference between smart and wise is two hours more sleep a night." This idea takes on a new dimension

But the Jedi had a saying about fear. It leads, ultimately, to suffering." Hera paused. "Someone has to break the chain.

Then go faster. But don't go stupid.

All truth is simple, but all that's simple is not truth"

Reading's the means by which the lowest man can lift himself from a state of ignorance.

He said he would die an educated man if he didn't live long enough to die as a free one.

Nothing vexes me so much in stupidity as the fact that it is better pleased with itself than any reason can reasonably be. It is unfortunate that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and trust yourself, and always sends you away discontented and diffident, whereas opinionativeness and heedlessness fill their hosts with rejoicing and assurance.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

la plus belle des savants, la plus savante des belles

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

La gente que pretendía que las cosas volvieran a ser como antes solía ser tremendamente ingenua.

Cuando puede que conocer el pasado fuera una forma mucho mejor de anticipar el futuro.

procurar que entendiese que conocer los hechos no implica necesariamente comprenderlos.

I think it is a medically proven fact that the older one gets, the more quick one is two spots conspiracies. Skulduggery. Cloak and dagger stuff.

La edad proporciona otras interpretaciones, por supuesto. Las venas se endurecen, lo mismo que las opiniones.

Estar loco te proporciona una visión interesante de la vida