Quotes About Wisdom

Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly.

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.

Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets.

The moon quotes the sun, the rivers quote the trees, and trees quote the breeze.

Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage — leave sagacity to the autumn!

O' Great Spirit help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence. —CHEROKEE PRAYER W

The more you learn, the hungrier you are to learn more. You can't get enough. You begin to crave knowledge and wisdom as much as you used to crave sitting on a couch vegging out to reality shows.

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

You can't argue with the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7)

Further, God referred to false knowledge in His words to Job in chapters 38ff. Specifically, in verse 2, God asks Job a rhetorical question wherein He expresses bemusement at Job's spiritual shallowness. He asks who it is that darkens, or obscures, God's counsel. Then He speaks of words that are without knowledge, referring to Job and his three friends who were all blind to the facts of Job's situation.

Woe unto them who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!… Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.