Quotes About Wisdom

Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

He was realizing too late that old people weren't entirely stupid.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Walter non aveva mai capito come vivere, ma adesso lo capiva meno che mai

Dogs again had it right. They didn't trouble themselves with mysteries that could never be solved anyway.

Now that I'm blind, I can see there is nothing to see.

Happiness, Buddha once said, is actually quite simple: The secret is to want what you have and not want what you don't have. Simple

Reality is constantly changing; as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, you can't step into the same river twice.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

When I was a boy I used to love pizza, and whenever my father took me to the pizzeria I'd order two slices. And I'd sit and he'd watch me wolfing down the first slice with my eyes on the second. I wasn't even tasting that first slice. And one day my father said to me, Son, you need to learn that while you're eating the first slice of pizza, eat the first slice. Because right now you're eating the second slice before you've finished the first.

I gained an insight, a purloined-letter kind of thing.

The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

I'm not smarter than you, I'm more knowledgeable than you, and that's only because I'm older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob

It is better to lose than never to have had.

It's better to lose than to never have had.

It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less.

Nothing is beautiful and true.

I trust that you have a good purpose for your ignorance