Quotes About Wisdom

It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

For me, education is very important. It opens up vistas of life and makes it easy for you to deal with it, because if you learn from other people's experiences, it enhances your life.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

Everything in life is like a class if you can operate in a capacity to be open for the lesson.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy, said the Dragon-fly

Nowadays, people read too many books to appreciate any.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

That is one of the secrets of life - to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.

Men become old, but they never become good.