Quotes About Wisdom

Sometimes I have the most amazing moments of clarity. Razor sharp, crystal clear. It's at these times I can see how fucking stupid I am.

Evet,yaÅŸam bir aldatmaca. EÄŸer yeteri kadar uzun yaÅŸarsan, hiç bir ÅŸeyin ÅŸa??rt?c? olmad???n? öÄŸreniyorsun.

If we find ourselves tempted to celebrate one approach over the other, we should remember the caution of the Chinese sage Confucius, who told his followers, "Study without thinking and you are blind; think without studying and you are in danger."       Formal

The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

We Indians know about silence," he said. "We aren't afraid of it. In fact, to us it is more powerful than words.

But the old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature's softening influence. — Chief Luther Standing Bear Oglala Sioux Some

It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the Creator gave them to us as teachers. Now that I am old I look once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men.

Watch, listen, and then act, they told us. This is the way to live.

You can't erase your past. And as long as you have a past, you're just like everyone else. You have to learn to live with that. It matters...eventually the choices you make today will be part of that past. So think about it, and decide how you want to live.

Blind belief is dangerous.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

The childhood years are the best years of your life… Whoever coined that was an unmitigated fuckwit, a bullshit artist supreme. Life gets better the older you grow, until you grow too old of course.

It is true, monsieur! At a certain age your sight comes back, rejuvenated.

Isak Dinesen went so far as to say, "There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

You learn working in hospice that a person can, in fact, live too long.

Inever did become wise. Y'always think that when you get old, you're supposed to become wise. But here I am, fixin' to die, and I never did." Gloria's milky blue eyes widened and she raised her eyebrows. She laughed, just a little bit.

The young will no longer be advised by the old," she said to the hall porter. "That is because we advised them to die," said the hall porter.

Never trust a man who bites the heads off chickens is probably a good sound rule of practice.

I don't like the idea of being killed by fools. I shall have to ensure that this does not happen.

The only way to win this cat-and-mouse game, as the Cat said in Red Dwarf, was not to be the mouse.

One can dare a lot if one is Emeritus

Some ignorance is invincible.

And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said—and she had the Sight—"Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!" And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels—or devils.