Quotes About Wisdom

it is a warning to those who would be warned and a lesson to those who would learn.

The past has left its traces on the world, and we only have to know how to read them.

To Stephen Hawking and all others younger than myself I say, "Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

Aquéllos que han leído el Libro del tiempo nunca lo admiten

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.

Hassan stared at the boy for a long moment, and then his anger faded, and he let him go. When next he saw his older self, Hassan asked him, "Why did you not warn me about the pickpocket?" "Did you not enjoy the experience?

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.

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... experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity

Guide me toward the proper course of action, Lord. I recognize that my desire to seek answers, while necessary in scientific endeavors, is not always welcome outside of it. Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

Just as we grow to understand the purpose of customs that seemed pointless to us in our youth,

Sometimes even bad advice can point a man in the right direction.

Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don't matter.

teaching him, as best she can, the business of living.

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to load.

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

It is knowledge that binds us; shared wisdom from ages past and new wisdom that we should all seek to embrace. Wisdom is our legacy; our refuge from the world of the ignorant and foolish. We chose this path that we might walk open-eyed into the future... undaunted by fear and lies.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.

please someone else.

It is possible to be well-educated and still not understand life.