Quotes About Wisdom

You just had to apply judgment to your action, and such judgment came with experience—but experience often came from bad decisions.

the only difference between a wise man and a fool was in the magnitude of his mistakes. To err was human, and the smarter and more powerful you were, the greater the scope of your screwup.

You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.

never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

He was carrying nothing illegal, except for that which was in his head.

History admires the wise, but it elevates the brave. —EDMUND MORRIS

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

It is good to be brave, Lieutenant. It is better to be smart, and much less painful for those around you

never pick up a baby to kiss it, trent said. they always puke on you, and somebody always gets a picture. always kiss the baby in the mom's arms.

you also learn a lot of things, because he's a dazzlingly effective teacher.

Armada y sería una maldita tonta si no hubiera pensado que

A wise man knows his limitations." And a bold one seizes opportunities.

he'd learned that in the field of medicine, the really smart ones were the teachers, unlike the rest of society.

As the circle of light increases, so does its circumference of darkness. —Albert Einstein

The pedestrian is the highest and most mighty of beings; he walks for pleasure, he observes but does not interfere, he is not in a hurry, he is happy in the company of his own mind, he wanders detached, wise and merry, godlike. He is free.

Look not for too long into the doughnut, lest the doughnut look into you.

The next morning, Malcolm thought long and hard before waking up, for he had come to recognise over the past quarter of a century that rather less can go wrong if you are asleep.

Once, when I was young, I believed in democracy. When I was a little older, I believed in oligarchy, government by the enlightened few; after that, in monarchy, the rule of the philosopher-king. Now I believe only in drainage, public sanitation and clean water.

Even more truly is it said: when you don't know spit, bullshit.

I sincerely hope, that you will grow up to be both a hero and a magician - brave and clever, though there's excellent grounds for saying the two qualities are mutually exclusive. But what the hell.

If ever I have the time, I'm going to write a book about beauty and pain. They're so alike in so many ways: neither of them really exist, but both of them are strong enough to override the strongest human mind and turn wisest and bravest of us all into clowns. Someone who can command beauty and pain – well, they'd have all the bases covered, as we say where I come from.

When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself

If you're thinking about doing something you won't be able to confess to your spouse or best friend, then DON'T DO IT! YOU ALREADY KNOW IT'S WRONG!