Quotes About Wisdom

if she was in a library.

A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat.

Even your kids wised up and realized you're an idiot. An evil one, but still an idiot. - Amy, to Isabel

Not everything can be learned safely in a classroom, Vega. Education is not so neat and tidy.

A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin. And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.

the individual can find truth by using his powers of observation and reason instead of blindly following tradition.

Experience without cynicism was a sure sign your brain had dry-rotted and you hadn't bothered to notice.

never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

Life is what it is, Alex. You just have to accept it, because you have no other choice.

Growing old is so darn unappealing until you consider the alternative.

Which goes to show an appreciation of history can be very helpful in day-to-day living.

One underlying philosophy in Ecclesiastes is that the individual can find truth by using his powers of observation and reason instead of blindly following tradition. You acquire wisdom and focus that wisdom to figure out the world on your own.

Books were meant to be read, not displayed on a shelf for decoration.

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Hindsight held a level of perfection that real-time decision-making could not provide.

Sayin' goes, those who did the most talk the least and vice versa.

Call it curiosity. Call it instinct. And I am a man who has followed his instincts. —I thought it was principles. —In my experience, they're one and the same.

Sooner or later, the realization arrives: the child discovers the immaturity of the parent, and the parent the maturity of his child.

In His wisdom, God brings two people together to balance each other, to fill each other's gaps. They are stronger as a team than they were as individuals. They are two independent people who choose to become interdependent.

One may speculate that perhaps in ancient times, the men who were wise enough to see that the immeasurable is the primary reality were also wise enough to see that measure is insight into a secondary and dependent but nonetheless necessary aspect of reality.

what we have to do with regard to the great wisdom from the whole of the past, both in the East and in the West, is to assimilate it and go on to new and original perception relevant to our present condition of life.

Irre-verration, i.e. the persistent holding to a truth beyond its proper limits, has evidently been one of the major sources of illusion and delusion throughout the whole of history and in every phase of life.

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been

Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin the world.