Quotes About Wisdom

A rewarding life is aging without hatred or envy.

Do not just jump into the water when you cannot clearly see everything beneath the surface. Eyes are easily deceived what instinct can only sense.

People who have aged and died with lack of education do not make them less of a person. But for the new generation who are fresh and offered greater education, there is discernment that they can do better and achieve greater heights.

So many people dream a lot, pray a lot and ask a lot for upliftment... but not for wisdom.

The philosophy of life started on the day you gained wisdom, not on the day you were born.

Being brave is good. Recklessness sometimes occur when you dare too much. A wise person doesn't have to be brave all the time.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are.

An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.

We all die uneducated. But at least we will not feel quite so lost, so bewildered. We will have disenthralled ourselves from the merely contemporary. We will understand something—not much, but something—of our position in space and time.

Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya!

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — ... "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — ... "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." —

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Dangerous things, books." "Look what it did to your brain.

Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal.