Quotes About Wisdom

You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

One who cannot live in harmony with others is regarded as an ignorant fool, even if he happens to be very learned in various matters.

Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of people will make the right choice.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

Without my specs on, I think I look really great; then I put them on, and I scream. But at 62, I still think less is better. I use Clarins foundation, but I don't put it everywhere - I hate that covered look - so just on the sides of my nose where the veins have gone bang.

Only as a child is one truly innocent. When he grows, he must pull on one veneer after another.

I'd like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothing to be proud of.

I'm a perceptive person. I know what's good and I don't venture into what's not good. I've discovered my own khazana. Everybody should.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.