Quotes About Wisdom

That hindsight thing will bite you in the butt every time. And there's just something about youth that keeps us from realizing how every choice we make matters. What I would give if I could just go back and spend those nights with Beck when he was a little boy at home.

But when you get to where I am in life, you realize that we are who we end up being because of each and every experience we've had. To pull one would unravel the entire masterpiece." I

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~ Confucius

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." ? Henny Youngman

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying, but now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. Its like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Sara: As professor emeritus, you ought to know why it hurts. But you don't know. Sara: You know so much, and you don't know anything.

Sécate las lágrimas y mira el fin con serenidad. Hubieras gozado más de la vida despreocupándote de la eternidad, pero es demasiado tarde. En este último instante goza al menos del prodigio de vivir en la verdad tangible antes de caer en la nada.

A tudás több választási lehet?séget ad, és több szorongást.

First, there is an old saying that "the future always foreshadows itself" via signs or signals of what is to come. Second, it is an accepted full part of wisdom to notice and take account of such signs. Third, human intelligence is considered one of the superlative attributes of our species, intelligence sufficient enough to recognize (theoretically anyway) disasters in the making. Fourth, however, there are no educational courses that might be called Recognition of Signs 101.

wink its all-seeing eye.

a brief aside, consider the wide-ranging philosophical importance of the following maxim: "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

While both of these adages may be somewhat appropriate in certain situations, it might daringly be pointed up that if we BECOME and ARE only what we experience, then it is not quite clear why we need intellect-intelligence or wisdom in the first place – because what we experience would do it ALL for us.

I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Comprendía, entonces, que la vida nos da montones de provisiones para nuestras travesías por el desierto. Todo lo que había adquirido de manera activa o pasiva, todo lo que había aprendido voluntariamente o por osmosis, volvía a mí como las verdaderas riquezas de mi existencia, cuando lo había perdido todo.

We must take time out to sharpen the ax or we'll exhaust ourselves trying to fell trees with a blunt instrument.

Leaders who value good outcomes more than assertion of their own authority understand that serious errors are avoided by the use of Intelligent Disobedience.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Food for thought

Let everyone beware lest he presume to take it upon himself to criticize and condemn other men's faults without his having been truly touched within by the Holy Spirit in his work. Otherwise he may very easily err in his judgments. Beware therefore. Judge yourself as seems right to you between yourself and your God, and let other men alone.