Quotes About Wisdom

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

The boos always come from the cheap seats. We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it's not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us.

At a certain age, you realize the greatest loss you can experience is a theft you perpetrate upon yourself—the waste of days given us. Is there any more piercing remorse than the realization that a person has thrown away the potential that resides in every sunrise?

But I had learned long ago not to argue with those who need to revise the past.

Ernest Hemingway said chasing the past is a bum way to live your life," the sheriff said. "He also said he never took his own advice.

her mouth and the earnestness in her expression were of a kind that made both the celibate and the happily married question the wisdom of their vows.

cryptic profundity

If age brings either wisdom or answers to ancient questions, it has made an exception for me.

Chief Joseph already said it. "The place where I go is the place where I will be.

We are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been

Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is.

God, don't let me be an old fool, I prayed.

Like many my age, I believe people in groups are to be feared and that arguing with others is folly and the knowledge of one generation cannot be passed down to the next.

He knows things don't happen in order, like past, present, and future.

His jaw went slack, the way an old man's does when his thought processes take him into blind alleys.

The woman considered the wisest person in old New Orleans was a witch by the name of Marie LeVeau.

The advantage of having a little knowledge about the classical world is that few other people do. The second advantage is your awareness that every problem facing us today has already occurred many times previously, and the behavior of the players is always predictable and the consequences are always the same.

I don't try to correct yesterday's mistakes in the present. I mark them off. I truly mark them off. A person hurts me only once.

But please don't be taken aback. Age is not kind, and it leaves a mean stamp on an elderly man's perceptions.

The great joke is that any wisdom most of us acquire can seldom be passed on to others. I suspect this reality is at the heart of most old people's anger.

Advice might be cheap, but there is nothing facile about the faith of those to whom we give it.

arguing with others is folly and the knowledge of one generation cannot be passed down to the next. Those may seem cynical sentiments, but there are certain truths you keep inside you and do not defend lest you cheapen and then lose them altogether.