Quotes About Wisdom

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

I am part of all I have read.

I am part of all that I have read.

I am a part of all I have read

You have many years to livedo things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

There's no time to muck about with nature and romance. Start thinking like that and you'll be old before your time.

To love is to listen, to listen is to learn, and to learn is to live

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.

Longevity can be a form of spite. I am an old man myself now, and I recognise the symptoms.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

My grandpappy used to say that people who loved each other fought in order to avoid intimacy.

You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

Experience is a great teacher.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.

Common sense, in this sense, is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.