Quotes About Wisdom

Galapagos tortoise," she said. "I'm one hundred and seven years old." "Huh. And you don't look a day over a hundred and five," I said.

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates.

She gave us her best advice on aging: "If you can't recall it, forget it.

The Voice finally had something constructive to say and not just more fortune-cookie crap.

there was no recipe that ensured a good life, and virtue was a joke. So was Karma. Life slapped down the righteous and the spiritual just as easily as the wicked and the free. The trick was to embrace this reality wholeheartedly. In so doing the smart man, the perfect man, the free man could act without fear of consequences.

Better readers are better thinkers.

Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui.

Besides, information was like weaponry. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Socrates, and politicians. I took a shot. You're right—no matter how much we explain, assholes like that lawyer

Um hoje vale dois amanhãs

As my mother used to say, "Don't tell your husband everything, only the important things.

I stood there silently, staring at the woman. I wanted to point out that it was the suspect who'd fired a pistol and run, but years of experience had taught me to let this go. In fact, from an early age, I'd learned to let most things go—my lack of achievement on the University of Miami football field, my failed love life, and even parts of my family life.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Luna said, "Sometimes I

Do you guys understand anything about best practices? I know you laugh at me because I follow procedures on everything, but those procedures were created for a reason.

Common sense is always more important than money or even a decent education. The problem is that you can't teach common sense.

And? you're thinking. Spaghetti Bolognese?! you're thinking. What's that got to do with anything? Well, as my homeroom teacher Mr. Rourke would say, "read on Macduff," which is something to do with Shakespeare. See? You've learned something already!

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

I don't think that Americans are ungrateful, not at all. But I do think that we are a young country, and we have a lot to learn.

We don't want to make the same mistakes twice, though I tend to take the positives from past experiences, even unhappy ones.

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'