Quotes About Wisdom

Los más elevados entre nosotros no siempre son los más sabios, y la generación más vieja no siempre es la mejor para juzgar qué es lo correcto

the highest among us aren't always the wisest, and the older generation isn't always the best to judge what's right.

No man should be told he's a god while he still lives,' he said at last. 'It doesn't promote good thinking.

Having access to knowledge didn't always mean understanding things. I do not entirely understand people.

Forget the story.

And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.

Sensible decision making involves acting on the information we have, even while accepting that it may well be imperfect and our decisions may need to be revisited and revised in light of new information.

An all-purpose expert is an oxymoron.

He wrote such profound thoughts in such a deceptively simple way. Right off the bat, first paragraph, he tells you life is hard, that there are no simple answers, and that we should all stop moaning about it and get on with it. Love, he wrote, was action, not emotion.

It is so easy to make mistakes when you are a parent. The easiest thing in the world," Marsha said. "But you can only do what you think is best at the moment. Maybe you will be smarter the next day, or the next month, or in five years. But it doesn't help you at the moment. You need to forgive yourself.

My Torah is also the greatest,' said the rav, 'but those who are mean-spirited have yet to use it.

It's better to know the truth and suffer the consequences than live in the lie.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

My son should often read and meditate on history; it is the only real philosophy

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One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant

It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, it is meditation.

The moral is to the physical as three is to one

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.