Quotes About Wisdom

You cannot look at someone and say they are unhealthy. You are not a doctor, and if you were, you'd realize why that's silly.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

I'm not too unintelligent.

I'm not an unintelligent individual.

As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

When I think about unique insight, what I think about is here's your opportunity to tell me something that I don't know.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

It's hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don't think I've ever met someone who has encountered 'Calvin and Hobbes' without falling for them.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The universe is an intelligence test.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

The universe is one of God's thoughts.