Quotes About Wisdom

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

You don't really know much until you get to be 70.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.

Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

It's amazing how unwilling most people are to admit they don't know the answer to a question or a problem and instead charge forward on a 'gut instinct' that turns out to be crap.

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.