Quotes About Wisdom

Man muss nicht alles so genau verstehen, lesen genügt auch...

Laß dir von keinem Fachmann imponieren, der dir erzählt: "Lieber Freund, das mache ich schon seit zwanzig Jahren so!"—Man kann eine Sache auch zwanzig Jahre lang falsch machen.

Wenn du so lang wärst, wie du dumm bist, könntst du aus der Dachrinne saufen.

The advantage of wisdom is that you always can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Erst habe ich gemerkt, wie das Leben ist. Und dann habe ich verstanden, warum es so ist, und dann habe ich begriffen, warum es nicht anders sein kann. Und doch möchte ich, daß es anders wird.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Before seeing, before feeling, and before thinking: What is the mind?

Once you carry your own water you will know the value of every drop.

Silence doesn't mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them.

The mind of a fool is like a broken pot. It holds nothing.

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up.

I know no such thing.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

When you're old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?

Knowledge only equates to power if you can figure out what to do with it.

The spirit of deception, you see," Father Maximos explained, "has egotism and pride as its primary attribute.

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Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.