Quotes About Wisdom

L'ignorance est l'état naturel de l'esprit pour un chercheur scientifique. Montrez-moi quelqu'un qui croit n'être en rien ignorant, et je vous montrerai quelqu'un qui n'a jamais cherché, ni affronté la frontière entre ce qui est connu et ce qui est encore inconnu dans l'univers.

Leonardo da Vinci would be in full agreement: "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinion.

Las personas que creen que lo saben todo nunca han buscado ni se han encontrado con los lindes entre lo conocido y lo desconocido en el cosmos. Y

intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

Ma knew what was goin' on. She could tell if there was salt missin' from a pretzel.

The person who is too smart to love is truly an idiot.

In the field, one quickly learns that everything that was funny at age ten is funny all over again.

Arthur Joseph (for voice lessons, infinite wisdom, and an eye-opening Esalen retreat)

Butting heads with someone never works," his mom said. "I always say that you don't have to do the direct approach. You can just go around because there's always a back way." "Now I know where he got Mystery Method from." In three sentences, his mother had unintentionally summarized Mystery's entire approach to meeting women: the indirect method.

At most, he was introducing me to a body of knowledge I could draw from, like the writings of Joseph Campbell or the teaching of the Buddha or the lyrics of Jay-Z. After

I told my students that the greatest liability they will have is old saints who never matured

We will never learn so much that we will no longer need to be dependent upon the Lord. A

18). If you want the truth to set you free, you have to know who the Truth is, not just what it is.

And the beauty of leaning on the wisdom of God, of trusting, gave her a queer sort of satisfaction. Faith was really quite easy. One had only to yield. To ask no questions. The more weary, the more weak, she became, the easier it was. Her religion was to her a kind of protective coloring, shielding her from the cruel light of an unbearable reality.

The cruel, unrelieved suffering had beaten down her protective wall of artificial faith in the infinite wisdom, in the mercy, of God.

Never have sex with a woman who has more problems than you do.

Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are.

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.  

tell you, the older you get, the more baggage you have to carry, and the less you're able to lift it.

Most of the MacCormicks and Bedells are college grads and according to my father the youngsters have all been educated beyond their intelligence.

Nelson DeMille

willful ignorance.