Quotes About Wisdom

They haven't written the books to teach us all we want to know about our existence and us. And a large number of what is written is largely based on the conventional and the imaginary.

Marianne Faithfull

We empower ourselves through knowledge.

It's funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don't think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don't know it till you die." — Patty Belle Bellani

Among animals, one has a sense of humor.Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Blessed the geniuses who know that egomania is not a duty.

one must not borrow a long white beard and tie it on and threaten with the scythe of time the casually curious

La gente que tiene el corazón en el cuello, en los labios, en los pantalones, en fin, en cualquier otro lugar que no sea en su lugar, acusa de no tener corazón a quien sí lo tiene en su lugar. Después de haber buscado en vano ese corazón en cada uno de los lugares que ellos conocen para el corazón, se convencen de que no tiene corazón; pues él lo tiene justamente en su lugar y ahí no se les ocurre buscarlo[1].

Seguir las pasiones sin otros puntos de referencia conduce a la tragedia vital.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience.

There are proverbs about frying pans and fires that I might have quoted to myself, but I preferred to adapt a different one to my purposes: better the devil that would attack everyone impartially than the devil specifically looking to kill us.

One benefit of being an old woman now, and moreover one who has been called a "national treasure," is that there are very few who can tell me what I may and may not write.

Our wisdom grows not by staking out claims and defending them against all comers, but by sharing information freely, so that we may work together for the betterment of all.

It's a wonderful feeling to have one's brain stretched and tested, to know both that one has knowledge, and that one is gaining more.

That image—last night's dream—made me think of the quote I had taped to the top of my screen, Professor Madison paraphrasing Mark Twain. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy.

Well I am glad I have something of the fool in my disposition--foolishness being the only quality that makes wisdom possible.

all the best, greatest, purest and worthiest things in life are beyond all market-value and that the gifts of the gods are not for sale.

Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.""Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.