Quotes About Wisdom

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living...

Holding out until you get your price to sell an investment is playing a fool's game.

Market timing is a poor substitute for a long-term investment plan.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. —Warren Buffett

Don't invest in things you don't understand.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

You'll always know more in the future than you know now.

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

Celui qui craint de mourir n'est qu'un enfant perdu à la recherche de sa maison.

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tuawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent Animals to tell man that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn . .. for all things speak of Tuawa. -Chief Letakos-Lesa of the Pawnees Tribe to Natalie Curtis, circa 190441

while I was still at Oxford.

A wise man never regrets the questions he asks. Only the ones he didn't ask.

I knew it was foolhardy; men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,

Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.

If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?

She wants to tell them that Blue Gamma was more right than it knew: experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher. If she's learned anything raising Jax, it's that there are no shortcuts; if you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything.

men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher.

S]kill at debate isn't the same as maturity.