Quotes About Wisdom

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

A beguiling optimism is often the first step toward folly.

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. St. Thomas Aquinas

I needed to learn the wisdom of my body and my heart, not just the wisdom of my mind. […] My body was not just some biological machine designed to carry my consciousness around. I was beginning to understand that, contrary to a culture which called the body sinful, it had intrinsic value, intelligence, and spiritual wisdom to offer me, if I would honor it.

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Some people might say, "Who would want to be 90?" And I say, Anyone who is 89.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

getting older is not a gift. But we had better make it one or be left with the knowledge that we have been ungrateful for life itself.

There is guidance for each of us," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

greatest surprises I have encountered has been that the people who seem wisest about the necessity of placing limits on the newest technologies are, often, precisely the ones who helped develop those technologies, which have bulldozed over so many of the limits of old. The very people, in short, who have worked to speed up the world are the same ones most sensitive to the virtue of slowing down.