Quotes About Wisdom

The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

Soon learnt soon forgotten.

Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

A woman isn't very powerful without her intuition.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.