Quotes About Wisdom

There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.

When you look back at your life, I bet you can think of quite a few situations that happened, things that seemed like setbacks, but of which you can now say, "I'm so glad that happened!" Everything happens for a reason. I believe that with my whole heart.

That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He feared the premature old age of missed opportunities.

Sometimes to be the bigger person, you gotta be the little guy.

Stupidity is the monocle of Intelligence.

In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

The point I'm trying to make is that we should let enlightenment take care of itself.

You will become clever through your mistakes.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.

It is never too late to be wise.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of imagination for an insight into necessity.

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

From my academic life, I was used to being in the company of very smart people, but it was apparent from the beginning that this was as smart a bunch of men as I had ever encountered. That first impression never changed (though I was to learn, in the years ahead, the severe limitations of sheer intellect

Years of research show that "distanced self-talk" can help someone gain some psychological distance from intrusive thoughts, helping them better regulate their emotions, self-control, and wisdom.[10] People are better able to handle negative emotions and intense situations, even if they previously struggled to manage their feelings or behavior.

As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they know only their own side of the question.

At some point between our high chairs and our rocking chairs, we learn about later.

Stuart Mill wrote, 'It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."14

The belief-transmission network of which we are a part cannot operate without a continuously replenished supply of people to do the transmitting, thus the belief that children are a source of happiness becomes a part of our cultural wisdom simply because the opposite belief unravels the fabric of any society that holds it.