Quotes About Wisdom

Andrew Carnegie once said, "I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.

People who receive disconfirming or otherwise unwelcome information often do not simply resist it; they may come to support their original (wrong) opinion even more strongly—a backfire effect. Once we are invested in a belief and have justified its wisdom, changing our minds is literally hard work. It's much easier to slot that new evidence into an existing framework and do the mental justification to keep it there than it is to change the framework.

when you are about to make a big purchase or an important decision—which car or computer to buy, whether to undergo plastic surgery, or whether to sign up for a costly self-help program—don't ask someone who has just done it.

No matter how painful it is to let go of self-justification, the result teaches us something deeply important about ourselves and can bring the peace of insight and self-acceptance.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit,' sir.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Flattery is the province of fools—those who give it and those who believe it.

I don't have to trust my instructors—I just have to learn from them.

I believe in books.

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

The book is man's best invention so far.

When in doubt, shut up.

You don't grow old, you become old by not growing.

In nothing that we can produce here is there at present the slightest chance of any return on our labor. Yet we keep on working -- really harder than ever. I wonder sometimes whether we are any wiser than the ants.

Listen to your inner voice... for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you... Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will open before you.

Your life is a sacred journey & it is about change, growth, discovery... You are on the path & from here you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, beauty, wisdom & love!

You are a woman of Wisdom, courage, strength, compassion & creativity. Go forth, then, with the fire of CONFIDENCE in your heart. Kindle with care, & never let its brillant flame go out!

we're too old to be young.

Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.

There's nothing more annoying than good advice from someone who makes a lot of bad decisions.

She thinks she's so smart but if you erase an hour, it doesn't mean shit, not unless you erase the weeks leading up to that hour.

Insight," he said, "is almost always a rearrangement of fact.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

I love reading books because... 1. books teach you how to live. 2. books teach you how to love. 3. books encourage you and give you hope. 4, books lift you up when you are down. 5. books take you to places and times you could never otherwise visit