Quotes About Wisdom

you'll never get dumber by making someone else smarter.

What comes out of the mind is what you put in the mind. You must feed your mind like you feed your body.

One of the biggest differences between leaders and followers is that leaders are learners.

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

Abba Macarius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

Galm's tone was reserved, each of his words precisely enunciated, almost as if it required extra concentration for him to speak. He was thousands of years old, and I wondered if he was so ancient and powerful that he sometimes had difficulty remembering simple things, like how to use language.

The Vietnamese have a saying that you can't use a basket to cover a lion or an elephant.

the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.

Keep the day ahead of you, that's what the old man used to say.

The economist John Maynard Keynes once said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. Keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

My goal is to learn things once and use them forever.

Age doesn't matter: an open mind does.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. —Socrates

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. —CALVIN, from Calvin and Hobbes

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."—Epictetus

As Tony Robbins would say, "The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.

The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.

And if all else fails, I try to obey this message I got in a Chinese fortune cookie (which I have since taped to my laptop): "Avoid compulsively making things worse.