Quotes About Wisdom

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Darren Campbell, the British Olympic sprinter, was my sprint coach at Middlesbrough - yet the best advice he gave me was to slow down. That might sound strange but he said: 'You have too much speed - you don't always need to run at 100 per cent.' I was used to running flat out every time, but he told me, 'You know how quick you are, slow down.'

Throughout my life, I've seen that everybody has had something to teach me and, strangely, it's always something relevant to what I'm going through at that point.

Ten rules of thumb are still a lot for anyone to remember, so perhaps I should try to make things simpler. I realize that these suggestions have a common thread—a golden rule, if you like. Be curious.

Do not siphon gas with your mouth.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

Henri Pélissier once said: 'Always attack as late as you can, but before the others do.

without the pot affecting his judgment.

Misplaced pride has no place in the heart of a true Je'daii.

Perhaps with age came a more sedate appreciation of the passage of time.

If I have any advice for you, it comes down to this: never imagine you know more than you do. Because the truth is, you almost certainly know less than you think.

in our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.' – David Hume, Scottish philosopher

Life is simply too short for the wrong books, or even the right books at the wrong time.

Curiosity is not a thirst that can be slaked: it is a permanent condition. Every answer points to more and sometimes more profound questions. And knowledge, by itself, achieves nothing: we want more, we want something elusive, called understanding, or wisdom. We want both the big picture, and our place in it.

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.

Talk never goes up in price, it's always free, and you usually get what you pay for.

Be open to the advice that goes against what you want .

A Cleaner knows when to walk away, and which direction to walk. Never running, always walking; he leaves smoothly and on his own terms.

Spend 80 percent of your time on books and 20 percent on articles and newspapers. And by books, I don't mean just any book. I mean hardcovers. A paperback is made to be read. A hardcover is made to be studied. There's a huge difference.

Be a lovecat," I replied. "And that means: Offer your wisdom freely. Give away your address book to everyone who wants it. And always be human.

Reading is a source of potency, I said, so manage it like an asset. Become a walking encyclopedia of answers for anyone who has questions.