Quotes About Wisdom

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

To save time is to lengthen life.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

keep telling her how beautiful she looks. Keep on saying that. How beautiful she looks. Lay it on thick. She won't believe you, she's too smart to fall for blarney, but it's what she wants to hear. It's the tribute you must always pay to great beauties when they grow old. Remember it's always the cameraman who grows old, never the star.

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The Bible is familiar, life is strange. We bring the two together, to shed light on life.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing.…

Dievai visas g?rybes parduoda tikr?ja kaina, yra pasak?s vienas senov?s poetas. Jis b?t? gal?j?s pridurti, kad pa?ias ver?iausias jie parduoda pigiausiai. Viskas, kas mums tikrai naudinga - nebrangu; tik už tai, be ko galima apsieiti, mokam didelius pinigus. Kas gražu - išvis neparduodama; visa tai nemirtingieji dievai mums duoda veltui.

Norstrom always used to say that I had two different brains working alternatively in my head: the well developed brain of a fool and the un- developed brain of a sort of genius.

Ne cepure ce? v?ru, bet galva.

mano galvoje pakaitomis dirba dvejopos smegenys: gerai išsivys?iusios kvailio smegenys ir menkai išsivy?iusios genijaus smegenys.

Žinau, kad gyvenimas puikus, bet taip pat žinau, kad mes dažnai j? subjaurojame ir paver?iame kvailu farsu arba šiurpia tragedija, arba abiem iš karto; ir galiausiai žmogus nebežino, k? daryti - ar verkti, ar juoktis. Verkti lengviau, bet juoktis kur kas geriau - tik ne garsiai!

You must learn what to fear and what not to fear.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

I have faith, but I have faith in human reason

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.

What do you know and how do you know it

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.