Quotes About Wisdom

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

I get more optimistic as I get older.

If you optimize for money too early, you will be minimizing for learning, almost without exception.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

There is no original truth, only original error.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.'

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

I'm old fashioned. I'm not one of these young guys who think they are so smart that they can prescribe what humanity ought to do. Humanity never learns any lessons. Prescriptions don't matter. We already know exactly what to do. We just don't do it.