Quotes About Wisdom

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

It's a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it.

For people like this life is just about stuff. Having more than your neighbor and never enough. For these types of folks it's all about fortune and fame. What pays off is good, what does not is lame. So they don't and they won't and they can't understand. It's wisdom, not money that makes life grand.

It's good to be open-minded, but not so open that your brains fall out. -Jacob Needleman

Civilisation hangs suspended, from generation to generation, by the gossamer strand of memory. If only one cohort of mothers and fathers fails to convey to its children what it has learned from its parents, then the great chain of learning and wisdom snaps. If the guardians of human knowledge stumble only one time, in their fall collapses the whole edifice of knowledge and understanding.

es necesario dar 'luz', pero aquellos que no saben oír y que responden con oscuridad cuando se les ofrece la 'luz': a ellos es necesario dejarlos ir por su camino y evitar que interfieran con el nuestro...

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

Denying God is admiting your ignorance.

He who fears the Lord, has nothing to fear.

Understanding is power and whoever has it has everything.

Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions...as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

Never judge a journey by the distance...

Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you. In time, Maisie, you will find that the larger questions in life share such behavior.

Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know.

Write down what I think I know. The knowing will come. Just keep listening...

My mamma says I shouldn't go on the other side".... My mama says the same thing. But she never said nothing about sitting on it

I should have known that sometimes common sense skips a generation.

Old people used to always say, You only as old as you feel. Here I am closer to fifty than forty, but I feel older than that most days. Feel like the world is trying to pull me down back into it.

Jacqueline Woodson

Think about some of the "simplest