Quotes About Wisdom

A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed.

Solomon's Laws: 8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel .

T-shirt with the saying "I May Be Old, but I Got to See All the Cool Bands.

Nobody knows something about everything.

the single difference between success and failure, between gain and loss, has boiled down to two words: applied knowledge.

Do as others do, not as they say. Sometimes, what people tell you to do with stocks is not as revealing as what people are actually doing. This is why I like to look at company insiders before I buy or sell a particular stock.

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

By the time you've figured out how the world works, you've already lost about everything you've hope to keep.

By the time you figure out how the world really works, you've already lost about everything you'd hope to keep

If you stay friendly with monsters you can find cracks in their armor to exploit. Shut them out and they can kill you without a second thought. I reminded myself of this over and over.

What a lot you know.' I laughed and said it was one of the few advantages of old age, to be a repository of bits and pieces of casual information that sometimes come in useful. But she said she didn't really mean that, she meant know as distinct from remember.

She wanted to ask, How long? A year? Less more? Any time? But she had lived long enough to know that you did not ask questions to which there were no answers and which you didn't want answered.

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all

The holiness of madness was transformed into the more humanist concept of 'wisdom'.

People will tell you, "What's the use? What's the point of reading novels and poetry?" They'll tell you to go to law school or to be an economist or to do something useful. But books are useful. Books will make you thoughtful, and they might even make you happy. They will certainly help you to become more civilized.

Borges, who said, "Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve.

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

Read to live better.

he was turning sixty-two, not an age of life-altering shocks but only of subtle diminishments.

Any advice for me? I'm driving south." "Don't drive at night. You'll be fine. You'll learn a lot. And Mexico City is a lot safer than it used to be.

Look for the truth in nature, I wanted to say to those cookie-eating missionaries in the next compartment; nothing is complete, everything is imperfect, nothing lasts. Go to bed.

His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught.

For Sale: Complete set of encylopedias. Never used. Wife knows everything.