Quotes About Wisdom

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing

Many times I've lied, many times I've listened, many times I've wondered how much there is to know.

When Grandma read me: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . . I never knew that Humpty's fall was something that someday comes to us all.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That's the end. That's when the coffin is closed.

My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means.

Books from the ancients, or the yogis and shamans, are your time capsules from yourselves to yourselves…

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn't live there. He lived in a world where you don't start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don't lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren't yet.

Maybe we should come to our opinions by using wisdom, logic, evidence, so much of those things that we know we are right and can't be swayed. Then we should hope for an argument against us that makes us think, "I could be wrong", and be willing to listen

I like that you're confident but not overconfident," Duncan said. "Smart people are the ones who know how stupid they are.

Danielson was a talking head in his fifties

Besides, you're taking the lead on this investigation, whatever it turns out to be." "I am? Why?" "Because I'm retiring in a few weeks. My job until then is to sit on my ass, push paper, and offer you pearls of wisdom," he said. "And I don't want to get myself killed like all the soon-to-retire cops in the movies just to add some tragic depth to your character. I've done enough for you already.

I have a lifetime of learning ahead of me. I apply many of the things I learned in school, but I've forgotten most. Random snippets of the rules come back to me, at times, but my mind will eventually eradicate them all, relearn them, and reinvent them.

Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forwards. —Søren Kierkegaard

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.