Quotes About Wisdom

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

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.

A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam.

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her freckles came off.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother. He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old.

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

I wanna live. I don't wanna die. That's the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade

You can prick your finger ... Just don't finger your prick.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

I think we're part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand; a higher order, call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. It doesn't punish, it doesn't reward, it doesn't judge at all. It just is.

Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bullshit they teach you in school.

The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath it's shade

Seven cures for a lean purse ; 1. Start thy purse to fattening 2. Control thy expenditures 3. Make thy gold multiply 4. Gaurd thy treasures from loss 5. Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment 6. Insure a future income 7. Increase thy ability to earn

Our actions can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thoughts can be no wiser than our understanding.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.