Quotes About Wisdom

As my Uncle Theodosius always said: never chase women who are a lot smarter than you. You won't catch them, or, what's worse, you might.

Arrogance wasn't the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.

So long as authority comes only from having a hand on a throat, wisdom and mercy are a moot point.

or cheaper.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

Don't believe everything you read.

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then. --Beldin

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom. Unless institutions maintain contrarian positions through difficult times, the resulting damage of buying high and selling low imposes severe financial and reputational costs on the institution.

It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not less, childish.

Life, I've learned, is not an affair of joy.

Seneca then suddenly changes the subject to talk about selecting and reading the right books, to discuss how "not wandering" is vital in reading also: "If you wish to take in something that will settle reliably in your mind," he says, "you must dwell with a few chosen thinkers and be nourished by their works. Someone who is everywhere is nowhere. Those who travel constantly end up with many acquaintances, but no real friends."7

Quand la cinquantaine arrive, on est trop vieux pour être jeune. Mais on est encore un peu jeune pour être vieux.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?

alma es fuente de vida (Prana), amor (Chitta) y luz (Buddhi), sus tres potencias principales.

Those Greeks and Romans," he protested, "they are so overrated. They only said everything first. I've said just as good things myself. But they got in before me."3

Often looking back at who we have been helps us discern who we are called to be.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

I have memories — but only a fool stores his past in the future.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.