Quotes About Wisdom

God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Plato is my friend, but truth my greater friend.

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;           Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.           All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,           All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,           But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know but as the essence of knowing. The alternative to uncertainty is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

Philosophy set knowledge adrift; physics anchored knowledge to reality.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

I am somebody who has always struggled with uncertainty. And, of course, uncertainty is so core to life. I seek out knowledge to help me deal with that. But I'm also aware that knowledge can be really a double-edged sword.

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

My uncle is a mechanic, and I wish I had paid more attention, but I never did.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.

I don't leave things like recovery to chance! I have learned from the best, after all - my father and uncle!

There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.

My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.