Quotes About Wisdom

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose—electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio—is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation. Mom

one of the things I learned from Mom is this: Reading isn't the opposite of doing; it's the opposite of dying.

The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

Smile, but keep your powder dry.

If our so-called understanding of animals does not ignite within us a loving urge to allow them to fulfill their lives and purposes, to honor, respect and appreciate them, then it is not true understanding. Our science is in many ways incapable of this authentic understanding, and, because it is also often a vehicle of corporate power, it is best not to rely on it too heavily in our quest for wisdom or healing.

As Joseph Campbell once said, watching birds speeding through webs of branches and never even grazing a wing tip, animals may dwell in a realm beyond mistakes, totally present to life in ways our concept-crowded thinking cannot fully understand.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Very few people grow up. Most people grow older but growing up is challenging. Many people get older honor their credit cards matriculate into and graduate out of schools get married and have children. They call that growing up maturing. It's not. It is simply growing old - Maya Angelo

In everyone's life there are important moments where you're going to have to fight for something. Just make sure you haven't used your capital over something that wasn't worth fighting over to begin with - Nina Totenberg

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

Oude mensen slijten harder dan hun kleren.

Nadie puede arrancar dos veces desde el mismo punto. Todo experimento que no pueda repetirse no es, en modo alguno, un experimento. Nadie puede experimentar con su vida. Nadie debería reprocharse el vivir a ciegas.

Of all persons living, he who does not remember that he has once been young, is the most completely disqualified for giving youthful counsel.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

The columnist George Will likes to quote a line that he says Cardinal Wolsey uttered about Henry VIII: "Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it." —George Santayana Every

Beware of epigram! It is one of Satan's favourite disguises.