Quotes About Wisdom

Simplest explanation usually the right one

Neatness is the hobogoblin of little minds

If by now you're a little confused, don't be too hard on yourself. Life is confusing, and anyone who claims that she has all the answers has probably uncovered the wrong ones.

You're never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.

Why do you think women are designed to outlive men? Why do we keep going for thirty years after our bodies can no longer reproduce? Do you think nature meant for those years to be useless? No, of course not. Our lives are designed to have three parts. The first is education. The second, creation. And in part three, we put our experience to use and protect those who are weaker.

The problems come when it's time to put our faith in things other than the Lord. There's no doubt that other people can be tricky. But once again, it's all about listening to your heart. That don't mean you should ignore what your head's telling you. But your heart will do a much better job of helping you figure out who's good and who ain't. Who deserves your faith, and who doesn't. If you judge solely by evidence, you could wind up making some big mistakes.

Wisdom and maturity were supposed to go hand in hand. Nessa had turned forty-eight in February, and she still didn't have a clue.

If you're old enough to understand all the words, he always said, you're old enough to read it.

With age, man's hair grows grey, his teeth become loose; his eyes and ears too become dim in action; but the only thing that does not abate is his desire for enjoyment

By the time you get to be my age it's like you're having breakfast every fifteen minutes.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

The difference between a young man and a mature man is not the beard but the Brain(Reasoning) because even a young man can have beards but with shallow reasoning-Kizza Ronald-

Als ob es darauf ankäme, dass man alle diese Bücher, die hier stehen, gelesen hat. Nein, man will sie irgendwann lesen. Man hat sie, damit man in einer bestimmten Stunde einfach an das Regal treten kann, das Buch herauszieht und zu lesen beginnt.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

There might be a fresh, new kind of truth in a cabbage

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.

Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges; it doesn't make any sense to do it.

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

I might simply be imagining things, but I do believe that in this parodying of heresy there exists a daring kind of wisdom that might also parody the grounds of orthodoxy.

Still, the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who lost his sight in adulthood. There must be the wisdom of deficiency in deficiency, just as there is the wisdom of plenty in plenty.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Bilgi güçtür, bilgi özgürle?tirir.