Quotes About Wisdom

What counts is how many years you get before losing your marbles,

As we get older, we're all going to lose a few of our marbles.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?

Do not refer to your toy-books, and say you have seen that before. Answer me rather, if I ask you, have you understood it before?

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize," she said. "The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

Socrates may have concluded that his most valuable possession was his leisure. "Beware the barrenness of a busy life" is a quote commonly attributed to him.

Tao Te Ching says that it is only through retreat rather than pursuit, through inaction rather than action, that we acquire wisdom. "Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused." The poems, still widely read, have been hailed as a hermit manifesto for more than two thousand years.

It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim. "I was tough and

People are to be taken in very small doses," wrote Emerson. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." Knight read the Tao Te Ching and felt a deep-rooted connection to the verses. "Good walking," says the Tao, "leaves no tracks.

He sat quietly, whether thinking or fuming or both, it was hard to tell. But he eventually arrived at a reply. It felt like some great mystic was about to reveal the Meaning of Life. "Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more. This was what he'd learned. I accepted it as truth.

One becomes free, Socrates seems to have taught, not by fulfilling all desires but by eliminating desire.

Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused." The

It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent.

Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching (I recommend the Red Pine translation), and started swimming from there. Excellent

Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused.

Time amid the silence of nature, in other words, makes you smarter.

I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." -Ayn Rand