Quotes About Wisdom

There's a period in one's life when beauty is very important. For me, it was high school. But I had a grandmother who kept saying, 'Handsome is as handsome does.' That's always stuck with me.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Young and dumb is something you gotta go through, but you've got to be a student.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

James Remar is a student of life.

My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

I have studied at the school of the world.

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very deeply about the world. He was a scholar, he studied history. He taught a class in critical thinking, and he was very, very aware of the directions we might go.

Having studied politics doesn't necessarily give you political nous.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.