Quotes About Wisdom

For most of my life, I've always been the youngest one at the table, and it's something I've come to expect, maybe take for granted.

There is nothing the heart doesn't already have. It's the mind that thinks it needs something more.

One of the great advantages of having a library,your eminence, is that it is full of books.

Aging Poem I can live with my arthritis, And my dentures fit me fine. I can see with my bifocals, But I sure do miss my mind.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do when you're down there."? – George Burns

In some ways it seems like the more intelligent i get the more aware i become of my own inherited doom

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall into the clutches of the wolf.

The king of Siam once asked his wise men for a proverb that would be appropriate for any occasion. They suggested "This, too, shall pass". Well, in biochemistry an equally appropriate saying for all occasions is "Things are more complicated than they seem".

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.

When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame.

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. — WILLIAM JAMES

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — EPICTETUS, Greek philosopher

Education is the best provision for old age. — ARISTOTLE

If you are mindful that old age has wisdom for its food you will so exert yourself in youth that your old age will not lack sustenance. — LEONARDO DA VINCI

To overcome inertia, Peter Drucker, the legendary consultant, suggested asking the seemingly naïve question, "If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we now know, go into it?"26

As grand and glorious as love is, it is not without its perils. Anyone who has felt the cruel pangs of rejection knows that love is best approached cautiously, as one would approach an angry, cornered brush-tailed possum. Yes, before throwing yourself into a relationship, it's wise to buy a sturdy pair of leather gloves, and to be extra careful of love's front claws and rows of needle-sharp teeth.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

Surak teaches us to find order in chaos," Spock pointed out. "He does not teach us to try to eliminate chaos or impose order on it.

Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher!

People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.