Quotes About Wisdom

Don't say anything unless you can improve on the silence.

Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he'd become a walking suicide note.

You want some advice?" "Yes" "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Smart means you know lots of shit. Clever means you can pretend you know it.

To misquote Mark Twain: It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

Convicts are experts at killing time because they age in dog years.

I ONCE DISMISSED FAITH BECAUSE I VIEWED IT FROM AN INTELLECTUAL STANDPOINT, BUT FAITH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INTELLECT.

You do not understand yet what you will understand in the end .

That's the good thing about dying young. You don't have to lament too many mistakes or carry too great a burden of regret about the people you wronged or the dreams that were unfulfilled. It's much better to die in your prime, before the damage is done to your body or other people.

Gehen Sie nie zu einem Arzt, dem in der Praxis die Pflanzen gestorben sind.«

Tell me what you can't forget, and I'll tell you who you are." —Julie Buntin, Marlena

It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

H.L. Mencken – journalist, beer-drinker and sage – said that for every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong. I share his mistrust for the obvious.

I am forgiving of a mistake, but I am not forgiving when it is repeated. It means you didn't learn from it

He says that everything a cook needs to know—everything, mind you—is contained in five books: Escoffier, Larousse, Hering's Dictionary, La Repetoire. I tell him that's only four. "And Câreme," he says. He pauses. "No one wants.

You cook with your senses," he said when someone did something stupid. "And one of those senses is common sense.

I once asked Leon Festinger, one of the smartest men in the world, whether or not he ever felt inept. He replied, "Of course! That is what keeps you ept.

George grinned and observed that success is always grounded in simply asking the right question

perhaps the founders understood us better than we understand ourselves.

We] cannot and should not expect to rediscover the full body of ancient wisdom by studying dusty monuments and myths full of idioms and subtle references understood only by those who lived at the time. The perennial wisdom requires each individual and age to discover it anew in external mathematics, expressing it in ways and symbols suitable for those times and cultures.

Wisdom should be cherished as a means of traveling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession. —Bias of Priene (c. 570 B.C., one of the Seven Sages of ancient Greece)

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. —Zeno of Elea (490–430 B.C., Greek philosopher)

With our habit of sensible literalism we have a difficult time believing that the ancient mythopoeic imagination could have been a valid tool for serious knowledge.

Long before Einstein phrased E=mc2, ancient geometers represented the trinity of light, energy, and mass by their three tools: the compass with its unsleeping eye or sun above and its legs as rays of wisdom and beauty shining into our lives, the straightedge that directs energy patterns of tension and movement, and the pencil and paper that make the patterns visible.