Quotes About Wisdom

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

Wise sayings are not always easy to understand at first. Sometimes it takes effort, time, and maturity to comprehend a deeper insight.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Am I making this decision because it's smart or because a majority says it's smart?

There are some situations in human life, it is true, in which it may seem wiser to wait out bad times. But that is seldom a wise course where your money is concerned. If you let it get stuck in a bad venture, and if the problems last, you can go for years without having the use of that money. It's locked up when, instead, it should be out chasing gains for you in other, livelier ventures.

Intelligent men found that among the hardest parts of war was the need to accept orders from stupid ones.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

The main thing those Americans who really knew about Vietnam knew was how little they knew.

Poles had a dark joke in 1944, about a bird which falls out of the sky into a cowpat, to be rescued by a cat; its moral, they said, was that "Not everyone who gets you out of the shit is necessarily your friend.

In den Glasperlen des Märchens spiegelt sich die Welt.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

Insight must precede application.

And what is our trickery, shrewdness, courage, obduracy? What else but - mind!

The young are of age when they twitter like the old.

It is entirely correct and completely in order to say, "You can't do anything with philosophy." The only mistake is to believe that with this, the judgment concerning philosophy is at an end. For a little epilogue arises in the form of a counter-question: even if we can't do anything with it, may not philosophy in the end do something with us, provided that we engage ourselves with it?

Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: 'Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: "What shall we do and how shall we live?"' That science does not give an answer to this is indisputable. The only question that remains is the sense in which science gives 'no' answer, and whether or not science might yet be of use to the one who puts the question correctly.

Pessoalmente, jamais admiti que, ao longo de uma discussão, se procurasse garantir vantagem exibindo a certidão de nascimento. (...) Não importa a idade, mas sim a soberana competência do olhar, que sabe ver as realidades da vida, e a força da alma que é capaz de suportá-las e de elevar-se à altura delas