Quotes About Wisdom

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.

I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to reëstablish the truth.

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.

Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.

The world is your school.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Facts are not science - as dictionary is not literature.

Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader and socialist, once told The Sunday Times, 'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

only he who already understands can listen

Only now have you lived long enough to know the child that you shall always remain.

The guiding light of investment contrarianism is not that the majority view-the conventional, or received, wisdom-is always wrong. Rather, it's that majority opinion tends to solidify into a dogma while its basic premises begin to lose their original validity and so become progressively more mispriced in the marketplace.

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth

a person generally stands to benefit more from appearing dumber than he is rather than smarter.

Some people are so smart that they're dumb about the most important things.

Longevity is highly over rated.

Union with God is not something that needs to be acquired but realized.