Quotes About Wisdom

Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go in to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

There is a look in his eye, a heavy look that makes him seem older, as though in one night he has lived one hundred lifetimes. And it makes him appear even more handsome.

There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.

Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.

Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.

Grandmother. The true power behind the power.

Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.

Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.

Keep listening. With open ears, you will be one of the few who learn.

Looking back on their own teenage years, most adults feel grateful that there's no easy-to-access document of all the dumb things they did.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to let go of the things I need to let go and the wisdom to know the difference. - Bobby Dodge

There's power in humility. It's one of the toughest lessons I've had to learn.

You can't get where you're going without being where you've been.

perhaps it is true that, as Bertrand Russell once suggested, "to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Your Authentic Self is informed by the experiences and hard-won wisdom you've accrued throughout your life. It's also about expression: who you are when you are free and uncensored.

Usually any advice I hand out is advice I need to hear as well." "So

You know, how you get to forty and you suddenly stop giving a shit about all the stupid things you worried about your whole life.