Quotes About Wisdom

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art… what we are talking about—and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth—I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything

Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they would appear to different grades of intelligence, different classes of people, different sections of the country. More than once this many-sidedness of his mind saved the country from ruin.

Thou art the book,The library whereon I look.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The poet T. S. Eliot captured this in his "Choruses from 'The Rock'": Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Yet a surfeit of information may paradoxically inhibit the acquisition of knowledge and push wisdom even further away than it was before. The poet T. S. Eliot captured this in his "Choruses from 'The Rock'":   Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

It has the added advantage of being true.

When information is contextualized, it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels convictions, it becomes wisdom. Yet the internet inundates users with the opinions of thousands, even millions, of other users, depriving them of the solitude required for sustained reflection that, historically, has led to the development of convictions.

When information is contextualized, it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels convictions, it becomes wisdom.

Observe carefully; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.40

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

The operating is the easy part, you know,' he said. 'By my age you realize that the difficulties are all to do with the decision-making.

It is often said that it is better to leave too early rather than too late, whether it is your professional career, a party, or life itself.