Quotes About Wisdom

It's not how many years you've got. It's how you use them.

The greater part of experience is acquired in sink-or-swim situations. If we were smart, we would never grow wise.

The Pagans have made known all of this. They have discovered the art of healing the body, they have also made known the art of healing the soul; they have filled the earth with settled forms of government and with wisdom which is the highest good. Without Paganism the world would be empty and miserable.

In Hermes' eyes Mankind's greatest error is that he has the power to know God and yet does not use it.

Wise words, although written by my decaying hand, remain imperishable through time; Imbued with the medicine of immortality by the All-Master. Be unseen and undiscovered by all those who will come and go, wandering the wastelands of life. Be hidden, until an older heaven births human beings who are worthy of your wisdom.

For the man of vision, all things are good, even if they appear evil to others. When men devise mischief against him, he sees it in the light of his knowledge of Atum, and he — and only he — transforms evil into Goodness.

Words lead us to the doorway of Truth, but only by contemplating their meaning can we pass through.

but don't you let him trick you into a fight in school. He's, like, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do or something.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Taking the high road is always the best way to go. You feel better about yourself, and the world feels better about you.

Maybe I'll start a little group of us that's called the Don't Do Stupid Stuff caucus. I'm going to be in the D.D.S.S. caucus. I'm going to lead it. There's no reason for us to be doing stupid things that are not getting us anywhere.

The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

They that govern the most make the least noise.

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.