Quotes About Wisdom

When we were desperate or hopeful or deluded or embattled enough to go for help we went to people with letters after their names and prayed that they might have read the right books that had the right words in them never suspecting the terrifying truth that the right words, as simple as they were had not been written yet

I was thinking how much trouble people get into because they can't keep their mouths shut.

I am persuaded that your people are foolish beyond any reasonable expectation. Not all of them. Obviously, there are many who are reasonable. Otherwise, you could never have reached this world. But the intelligence seems to be confined to a relatively few individuals. When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well.

Stupidity is always expensive

The individual human life span is brief and, in the long view, inconsequential,' he said. 'We are children one day and signing out the next. Therefore, in the brief moment we are allotted, live reasonably, be compassionate, and when your hour comes, accept it without histrionics. Never forget that your handful of hours is a supreme gift. Use them wisely, do not fritter them away, and remember that your life is not an entitlement.

Live from Babylon and Ur, From Athens and Alexandria and Rome, The voices of a thousand generations, Press us, Urge us on-.

Only the foolish and the uncaring make guarantees. Circumstances change, the world moves on, While wisdom, and sometimes decency, Require constant adjustments.

I have begun to imagine human knowledge and ignorance as tracing a curve of asymptotic divergence, such that with every increase in knowledge, there occurs a greater increase in ignorance, the result being that our ignorance always exceeds our knowledge, and the gap between the two grows infinitely greater, not smaller, as infinite time passes.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Albert Einstein: "If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales.

In low levels of consciousness it is unwise to believe, trust or follow our thinking

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

What a man knows isn't important. Its what he is that counts.

Knowledge is useless unless you know where it ends.

To gain a fresh perspective on an old industry, it helps to listen and learn from younger people. A great way to formalize this process is to get a reverse mentor—a younger person who has less experience in your industry. (What you might see as a "lack of experience" can be viewed from a different perspective as being unburdened by assumptions, biases, and conventional wisdom.)

As Tony Robbins said, "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

LEAD LIKE YOU'RE RIGHT, BUT LISTEN LIKE YOU'RE WRONG

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Genghis Khan warned them against the pursuit of a "colorful" life with material frivolities and wasteful pleasures. "It will be easy," he explained, "to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses, and beautiful women." In that case, "you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

No friend is better than your own wise heart!" Genghis Khan

He admonished them never to think of themselves as the strongest or smartest. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it, he warned. When the animals climb to the top of the mountain, they are even higher than it is.