Quotes About Wisdom

You learn more by reading more. I'm living proof that the more you learn, the more you earn.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

Listen to the crickets," she said, nodding sagely as she spoke, understanding everything.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Are we playing Faster Fingers or are we thinking?" Faster Fingers was their code for supplanting brain/memory with Google Search.

Now, I don't consider myself the smartest chip in the cookie, but I ain't the dumbest, either.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them.

Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.

Knowing too much about a subject can make us overly cautious. Having a lot of conventional wisdom may make us doubt our own hunches and intuition because we're more likely to think that any seemingly good ideas that pop into our heads are wrong if they don't square with what we've previously learned.

Truth and beauty are closely related but not the same. You're never sure that you have the truth. All you're doing is striving towards better and better truths and the light that guides you is beauty.

Once again there shall be great music: this shall be mightier than the first. It shall be unflawed, filled with wisdom and sadness, and beautiful beyond compare

But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

You must listen to your woman more as an oracle than as an advisor

Ongoing passion and growth in intimacy requires us to let go of our ideas of what we "should" be doing and instead trust the wisdom inherent in our unguarded heart and uninhibited body.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.' By

The Principle of Optimism All evils are caused by insufficient knowledge.

My pencil and I are more clever than I.

This is what we can achieve when, as Feynman said, we keep learning more about how not to fool ourselves.

They can be understood only by being explained. Fortunately, our best theories embody deep explanations as well as accurate predictions.

Richard Feynman said, 'Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

The usefulness of an elder will depend in the long run more on his character than on his gifts and knowledge.

Listen for an hour, speak for a minute