Quotes About Wisdom

He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the whole picture?...having certain kinds of smarts didn't necessarily make him smart, he'd come to figure. He seemed to have blind spots. His heart was one.

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

The crossing of the Red Sea is, according to the allegorical or symbolic meaning, really the entrance into matter. Water always stands for matter in the esoteric wisdom. The well-known story of the forty years the Jews spent wandering in the wilderness was a mythical construct that was symbolic of the soul's life in the body during its earthly sojourn.

The dull mind rises to the truth through material

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

Call it a hunch; and hunches don't just materialise, you pay for them with hard-earned experience. No such thing as a free hunch.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

That you may be strong be a craftsman in speech, for the strength of one is the tongue, and the speech of one is mightier than all fighting. –Written five thousand years ago by Ptahhotep

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.

Mark Twain said a century ago, "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that ain't so.

No matter how high you rise in your career, no matter how much expertise you gain, you still need to keep your knowledge and your insights refreshed. Otherwise, you may develop a false confidence in what you already "know" that might lead you to the wrong decision.

relentless practice creates a database of experience that you can draw upon to make more enlightened choices.

Clio, the patron goddess of history, has a sense of humor; she teaches us that not all problems have solutions

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late.

It was as Ginger's grandfather had said. It did not matter how far you go, you always take yourself with you.

You can't let buffoons rule your life.

The unexamined life isn't worth the high price that you must pay for it.

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

I've matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it's coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.