Quotes About Wisdom

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll show you a happy man." Keating: "But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

Screw me once, shame on you, screw me twice shame on me. Screw me three times...can I at least get a reach around?

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.

But the picture of when we reason best that emerges from the research is far away from the classic image of rationality - the wise scholar alone in a study. Rather, we avoid error when we reason in groups - allowing the push and pull of argumentation to get us out of holes that we'd otherwise dig ourselves into.

There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old," Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. "The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations—unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Stark raving sane.

Ain't but three things in this world worth a solitary dime/ But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," writes Shunryu Suzuki. "In the expert's mind there are few.

Let me let you in on a little secret," he writes. "If you are hearing about something old, it is almost certainly good. Why? Because nobody wants to talk about shitty old stuff, but lots of people still talk about shitty new stuff, because they are still trying to figure out if it is shitty or not. The past wasn't better, we just forgot about all the shitty shit.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!