Quotes About Wisdom

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

There are so many occasions when I'd like to go back in time and have a word with myself.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.

He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Mio padre possedeva sicurezze incrollabili su certe faccende inerenti all'universo. Per lui, tutte le cose buone – dalle trote alla salute eterna – derivavano dalla grazia, e la grazia dall'arte, e l'arte non è una cosa facile.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like curling up with the good book. You mean a good book Oh, dear, did I say the good book sighed the witch.

Metaphor reveals a writer's true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life.

What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers—there are only questions.

There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence around the fence.

Most people, no matter how brilliant, are vessels. Once you come to the end of what is interesting in them, you can touch the side of the jar. There will be nothing afterward but repetition of what you have learned already. It might take a night, a year, or half a lifetime, but once you can reach the side of the vessel, a good part of the larger feeling is gone.

Consciousness, that blunt tool, bucks in the general direction of the truth. Instinct plucks the feather.

If these really smart philosophers can't agree on what wisdom says, why should I pay them any attention? The answer is——because it's the best shot you've got. If you seriously want to improve your opinions, there's nothing better you can do than engage in a conversation with the best minds our history has produced.

He already understands that the past can't be changed. Now he's beginning to understand how easily it can be repeated.

A book is a present that you can open again and again

The creative thought principle is very important, for as Gautama Buddha declared, "The mind is everything; what you think you become.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.