Quotes About Wisdom

although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

many of the top masters in their fields long ago had to learn to stop listening to themselves and instead begin talking to themselves.

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Stupid is you can't learn, ignorant is you haven't learned yet.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You

You are not dumb, Yevette. All of us who have got this far, all of us who have survived- how can we be dumb? Dumb could not come this far,I am telling you.

Yu can't live if yu dead, neither. Yu probly too smart to get dat.

I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height.

Books lay on the floor in literary dunes.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Experience is the only teacher," Hey-Soos says. "Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don't listen to their parents, or people don't leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?

He doesn't believe butt time on planet Earth doesn't neccessarily makes you wise.

I'm a little kinder to myself most of the time. I tell myself I learned an important lesson the hard way: that the universe doesn't make allowances for mental lapses or ignorance, but that maybe I'm a better man because I know that.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

So you didn't tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . ." "Because experience is the only teacher," Hey-Soos says. "Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don't listen to their parents, or people don't leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There's only one thing that's universal." "What's that?" "The truth.

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Clara had said to ask God for the truth. "Discover the truth about God, who He is, how He works, how much He loves. And then you'll uncover the truth about yourself, your sin, the ways you displease God. The truth about your life is always better to know, even if it hurts.

You won't find magic potions here. No matter how enticing they may seem, promises of quick fixes mostly set us up for failure and do more to deter us than empower us.

As Dr. Zinchenko informed you, I'd like to say a few brief words. Here they are: 'short,' 'memorandum,' and 'underpants.' And let us pause to remember the immortal words of Dr. Seuss: 'The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.' Children?…

And let us pause to remember the immortal words of Dr. Seuss: 'The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.