Quotes About Wisdom

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —MULLA NASRUDIN

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

His ass knows more words than his mouth does.

Certainty is the lot of those who do not ask questions.

I just have to be smarter than my own mind.

You have your whole life ahead of you," my mother told me, "don't spend all your time in the past." It's good advice, I know it is, but the past has its own ideas. It can follow you around with a life of its own, casting a long shadow.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?

The belief in God rests on the art and wisdom displayed in the order of the world.

To learn by heart is to learn By hurt—grief inscribing Its wisdom in the soft tissue. Song you sing, poem you are— Finger moving, precise As a phonograph needle, Along the groove of scar.

I want to study The book of the world: Every vanishing page.

If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about any one thing about yourself, life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know, and why?

D. H. Lawrence's "Never trust the teller. Trust the tale" is always right.

Most have simply seen and done too much; as the Rolling Stones have been proving for ten years, you have to work for innocence. You have to win it, or you end up with nothing more than a strained naïveté.

Say "no" only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, "All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

You put five intelligent people together and they vote like an idiot.

Pensar lleva tiempo.

Tüm bilgilerin özünde iyi ara?t?rma yatar.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.