Quotes About Wisdom

Teachers are special individuals with unique abilities.

You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die and, then it's too late.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Every time I was ever a fool, I was always the last one to figure it out.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

As it is with a play, so it is with life, what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.

He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.

Never spend your money before you have it.

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.

Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.

Dont cross the stream to find water.

The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

The word "expert" in a self description should be followed by the word 'bullsh...'

You either wise up or you kiss your family goodbye, and you go on to eventual self-destruction. ...But don't take your kids with you.

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you know and what you dont.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.