Quotes About Wisdom

Make money with your mind, not your time.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power (1 Corinthians 2:1-5).

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.

The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know how to fly, you need to know how to walk.

Time is our greatest asset, learn to spend it wisely.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. Bill James

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.'s in man's ignorance.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

If human beings had the wisdom and knowledge-generating capacity to be able to describe how a free market would work, that would be the strongest possible argument for central planning. One advocates a free market not because of some moral imprimatur written across the heavens, but because it is impossible for human beings to amass the knowledge of local conditions and the predictive capacity necessary to effectively organize economic relationships among millions of individuals.

Wallace Stegner once wrote that the lessons of life amount to scar tissue.

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At critical moments the veil between the little-self and the deep self thins and a meaningful self-adjustment becomes possible. If a person does not become paralyzed with fear or frozen in hatred, the wise self hidden within will rise to the occasion.

Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.

Where reason fails and logic stumbles, myth waits to open paths of imagination and understanding.

Wisdom can reveal the light hidden in dark times; but it requires that we face the darkness in ourselves. People may desire pearls of wisdom, yet most are unwilling to descend to the depths where the pearls wait to be found. Wisdom involves a necessary descent into the depths of life, for that alone can produce 'lived knowledge' and a unified vision.

Myths are intended to break the spell of time and release us from the immediate pressures and limitations of daily life.

The point has never been to 'believe' in myths or to simply accept what others have said they mean. The key issue with mythic images is to let them speak to us, wherever and whenever we find ourselves seeking guidance, permission, or understanding.

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.