Quotes About Wisdom

Only from the calm, he said, can you see how to protect yourself from trouble.

just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female.

It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

finding a book is no guarantee that you will understand what it means unless there is also someone there who read it to you when you were very young and who may, indeed, have it memorized." (p 154)

Early in my career I had learned the wisdom of not gripping over the hand I was dealt. I had a mentor who taught me lessons about business and life that served me for years. He looked at business the way a grand master might look at a chessboard. There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are. It's only your next move that matters.

Education and material well-being had reached heights that had surely exceeded anything in history, yet we did not seem to have a particular advantage for gaining wisdom, joy and peace of mind.

There were times when Pizlo knew he thought too much, and other times when he thought he knew too much. This time was neither of those.

If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

You can observe a lot by watching.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

One never knows, do one?

A library is not to be read completely, but to be consulted. Here there are books which are around just in case. I have read all my life, but there are many things about which I know nothing. What's important is not to have everything in one's head but to know where to find it. The difference between someone who's vain and someone who's wise is that the vain man only appreciates what he already knows, and the wise man searches for what he doesn't yet know.

Phil never settled on a name for the new, dual consciousness within him. His most frequently used term was "homoplasmate" - a bonding of a human and an information-rich "plasmate" life form. He further felt that this new wisdom or grace had been "programmed" in him by age four, and that it would save him.

Sterren realized he would have to rely on his wits -- and those wits were good enough that he knew he would rather not have to rely on them.

In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice.... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong ... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.

If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.