Quotes About Wisdom

Young people seem not to know that they are going to get old, but older people know that they are not going to become young again.

Life is short. Why not be familiar with all of it?

To the white people, among whom I helplessly number myself, life is a very long and high set of stairs, but to my mother life was a river, a slow and stately wind across the sky, an endless sea of grass.

Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity.

There can be a wonderful substratum of thinking going on beneath the banal tonnage of human behavior. Perhaps

It was today—rather yesterday I think—that he told me it was important not to accept life as a brutal approximation.

While it is a truism that man has not learned much more than the sexual act, and that fire burns when you stick your hand into it, it behooves the scholar to immerse himself in the analyses of the problem, rather than the problem itself. One

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..

There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors...

It looked like I'd sold my pottage for a mess of afterbirth, as the saying is. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped on.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the antidote to religious fundamentalism is more secularism. But that is a very big mistake. The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

he doesn't agree with the conventional wisdom that says, "The world changed on September 11." Hauerwas says, "No, the world changed in 33 A.D. The question is how to narrate what happened on September 11 in light of what happened in 33 A.D.

Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Pointing to the mutual envy of businessmen and politicians who are often out of their field in each other's area,, the author quotes the wisdom, A wise shoemaker sticks to his trade and maintains a mouthful of nails.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

Maybe it's all too simple for the big brains to figure it out. What if the hokey-pokey is really what it's all about?

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

I'm growing older but not up, my metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. Let the hands of time blow over my head, I'd rather die while I'm living, then live while I'm dead...

As our mountain friend says, 'It takes about forty-five or fifty years before we realize that we can go to bed at about ten o'clock and not miss anything much.