Quotes About Wisdom

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.

there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.

When a body's this old, she can claim to be as wise as she wants.

learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

You can learn too much from experience.  A cat that sits on a hot stove will not sit on a hot stove again but unfortunately the cat will not sit on a cold one either."  - Mark Twain

Kohei Goshi, the 81 year old founder of the Japan Productivity Center, our host in Japan, said, "Americans are very good at inventing, but we may be better at raising a baby.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Niemand weiß wirklich genug um ein Pessimist zu sein.

Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

Why would we have to know everything all the time? Why do we have to be so knowledgeable, so smart, so in control? We don't! There's no need to figure everything out. We can just be alive. We can breathe in and breathe out and let go and just trust our life, trust our body. Our body and our life know what to do. The problem is to let them do it, to relax and let them guide us.

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

When it comes to curbing speech, experience thus confirms the general rule in human affairs: humility is to be preferred over arrogance.

So I cast my lot with him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am' - and proved it.

Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us.