Quotes About Wisdom

People are tempted to tell you everything, with perfect accuracy, right up front, when they should be giving you just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

The advice we give others, then, has two big advantages: It naturally prioritizes the most important factors in the decision, and it downplays short-term emotions.

One of the worst things about knowing a lot, or having access to a lot of information, is that we're tempted to share it all.

Simple ideas: short sentences (compact) drawn from long experience

But let's not confuse memorability with wisdom.

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know

Jonathan Haidt. See Haidt (2006), The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, New

Surprise isn't enough. We also need insight.

just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

An expert is simply someone who has more experience than you.

That's not intuitive knowledge.

Lots of things are out of our control. But the goal is to be wise about the things that are under our control. And one thing we can control is how we define the ultimate victory and the small victories that lead up to it.

When you use analogies—when you find someone who has solved your problem—you can take your pick from the world's buffet of solutions. But when you don't bother to look, you've got to cook up the answer yourself. Every time. That may be possible, but it's not wise, and it certainly ain't speedy. DUNBAR

What she gained was the insight that comes from experience.

Failing is often the best way to learn, and because of that, early failure is a kind of necessary investment.

We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.

I would learn then that generosity has little or nothing to do with how much money you have or how far along you perceive yourself to be on your spiritual journey. In fact, I was shocked to learn that being generous has much more to do with being smart, shrewd, wise, and deliriously happy. In a word, I discovered that generosity is genius!

Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It's not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It's not so much about what you lose; it's about what you gain.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

Beauty is not everything!

But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

And finally, I bless my daughters, who are yet unborn. I pray that, if life tests them—as sooner or later life is bound to do—they'll be able to stand steadfast and think carefully, using their hearts as well as their heads, understanding when they need to compromise, and knowing when they must not.