Quotes About Wisdom

Later in life, Holmes wrote to his friend Harold Laski, "Every mitigation

They read all the books but they can't find the answers.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

I'm older than dirt, I've got more scars than Frankenstein, but I've learned a few things along the way.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

when you're young, you feel invulnerable. I don't feel invulnerable anymore.

That's one thing can't be bought is brains. Only God can give brains. And they don't come off the wind either.

Cool, calm and collected, the three seas of wisdom and success.

I suppose that's how you get old. You find yourself not doing a whole lot of things you once did without thought.

As a general rule, if you're holding down a job it's best to lie low and keep your mouth shut.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

A word to the wise an't nesisary its the stupid ones who need the edvise.

There is no good in most of their secret counsels except (in) him who enjoins charity or goodness or reconciliation between

You're young," Mallory says. "And the worst thing about being young is not being able to appreciate that you're young because you aren't old enough to know any better.

They were taught in school that fear often derives from ignorance. Once you understand a situation, it becomes far less intimidating.

One is never too young for fine literature . . .

Leland had once read an interview with Toni Morrison where the author said she regretted a third of her life. Leland's percentage was running a bit higher than that.

Leland had once read an interview with Toni Morrison where the author said she regretted a third of her life.

That was the darnedest thing about sitting down as an old woman—getting comfortable and looking good were nearly impossible. "You've

the way Adrienne's mother had taught her eighty-two years earlier.