Quotes About Wisdom

La vida sin esperanzas es tremendamente difícil, pero con cuánta facilidad consigue la esperanza, en definitiva, volvernos necios a todos.

Se dice con frecuencia que más vale partir demasiado pronto que demasiado tarde, ya se trate de una carrera profesional, de una fiesta o de la vida misma.

I have learnt that handling the brain tells you nothing about life - other than to be dismayed by its fragility.

sometimes, if you are to make the right decisions, you have to accept that you might be wrong.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

while hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that builds wisdom.

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

A good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

I'm twenty-three and I sound like I'm fifty-five.

I will do to you what you taught me. I will pass my fingers over my scars and read them like Braille and they will tell me what to do.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.