Quotes About Wisdom

May your path always lead to knowledge, Prisoner. Knowledge to freedom.

As she'd learned through painful experience, second-guessing could be every bit as deadly as overreacting.

Best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax and always look on the bright side of life.

There comes a time when you're losing a fight and it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're bring a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.

GTis not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience

intelligence is a combination of mental ability and the accumulated knowledge that arises from that ability.

Nietzsche suggests that "if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." In

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

Thank you, Yoda. Feel the force, Luke.

I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

Krishna means love, she said. But Radha means longing. Longing is older than love. I am older than he. Did you know that, Sita?

He had smoked dope exactly twice, but stopped when he realized it was called dope for a reason.

If you don't want to die, you should have never been born

On my eighth birthday I asked my grandfather how big the world was. When you are small, he said, it is huge. But when you are a master of nature, it is like a ball you can hold in your hand.

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The expression the impatience of youth is silly. The longer I live, the more impatient I become.

Any spot where the earth kisses the clouds is a special place, a place where primal truths reveal themselves to those who've acquired the wisdom of solitude.

He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, I have learned never to say, 'Never again.

The mind that relies on cliché does not really know what it is saying.

Approaching everyone you encounter as though they have something valuable to teach you—something that you will benefit from—is the best way to remain flexible, open-minded, and much less stressed.

people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20% percent of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70% percent of the time.

Attentive readers will also note the significance of the form he uses for much of his teaching—the parable. The parable is the teaching tool of the sage, indicated by the fact that the Greek term for "parable" (parabol?) is used in Greek versions of the OT to translate the Hebrew word "proverb" (m?š?l ), a central form of wisdom teaching in the OT. The Jesus of the Gospels is a sage.

Don't overlook the truth; properly handled, it can be an effective weapon. But bear in mind that weapons get blunted with overuse.

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals.