Quotes About Wisdom

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

the eye should not see until the heart has conceived

They tell me that you'll lose you mind when you grow older. What they don't say is that you won't miss it very much.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

You track with the heart, not the eyes. The eyes are easily deceived; easiest thing in the world to show something that isn't true and make people believe it.

One thing you learn in life is almost everything your grandmother told you when you were young, and which you thought at the time was just the lunacy of old age, is actually true.

A wise man once said there are three ways to find a fool. He is a fool that seeks that which he cannot find; he is a fool that seeks that which being found will do him more harm than good; he is a fool that, having a variety of ways to bring him to his journey's end, takes that which is worst.

The best vision is insight.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Eating well. Exercising well. Sleeping well and loving generously. All of these things slow us down and bring us stillness, revealing and enabling this wise part of ourselves.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

It is the right of the grandfather to tell the grandson later what was said while in the womb. It is the right of the grandfather to give the name that will serve as a life program to its bearer. Grandfather