Quotes About Wisdom

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.