Quotes About Wisdom

I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I, for one, find it difficult to picture adolescent Jesus looking up suddenly one day from a page of Job or Chronicles and exclaiming, "Wow, what an insight! That really does make sense!" Jesus was not "working out" a religious theory. He was taking possession of his own identity.

When I say I know something, I'm right 95% of the time; when I say I DON'T know something, I'm right 100% of the time!

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Knowing yourself and possessing self-awareness allows you to make more mindful decisions that are right for you.

There was a deep wisdom behind the orgiastic and hysterical aspects of ancient religion; there is much to be said in favour of this flinging open of the floodgates to grief. It might be argued that the decorous little services of the West, the hushed voices, the self-control, our brave smiles and calmness either stifle the emotion of sorrow completely, or drive it underground where it lodges and proliferates in a malign and dangerous growth that festers for a lifetime.

Life, he told himself, is a palimpsest of expunged experiences.

As a bachelor, what can I say? The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. They are four things which I know not.

which encouraged a general sense of fellowship in the chaotic shipwreck that is old age.

You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...

Ng??i ta không già ?i. V?i nh?ng n?m tháng trôi qua, nhi?u ng??i và nhi?u th? r?t cu?c tr? nên hài h??c và n?c c??i ??n m?c b?n ném vào h? và vào chúng m?t cái nhìn tr? con.

As the years go by, many people and many things end up seeming so humorous and so pathetic that all you can do is try to look at them through the eyes of a child.

Tenía usted razón cuando me decía que en la vida, lo que cuenta no es el porvenir, sino el pasado.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

Knowledge is dangerous.

The lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.