Quotes About Wisdom

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.

What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's really nice is that I don't have a photographic memory, so words get blurred, thoughts get mixed up, and they come out as something new.

Easy answers are never really useful ones, so hopefully we're not trying to peddle easy answers.

With every coach you work with, you learn something. Then, at the end of your career, when you become a trainer, you take something from every coach that you think is useful for you.

Anytime you learn something new, you're just trying to file it away - might be useful one day.