Quotes About Wisdom

Women, I have long believed, are the more evolved of the species and have attained some higher level of being.

Yogi Berra reportedly said, "It's not the heat, it's the humility.

Man is never so foolish as when he fools himself.

SOLOMON'S LAWS 4. If you're going to all the trouble to make a fool of yourself, be sure to have plenty of witnesses.

Sometimes silence is the best question.

In my playing days, like a lot of jocks, I hung out at places like the Booby Trap and Cheetah and other strip joints. Booze and breasts and wasted nights. Maybe getting older and presumably wiser ain't such a bad deal.

Magna est veritas. Great is truth.

George Carlin's voice: "Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.

We give ourselves the name Homo sapiens, which means 'wise man,' but of course, we are not born that way, and we don't gain wisdom from books. We learn how to live by living. Vive ut vivas—

paradox? It is that we can be a child sitting on a window ledge knowing everything and we can be the universe knowing the child at the same time.

as Gaston Glock himself put it in an interview: "That I knew nothing was my advantage.

It's very hard to teach anything to a young man who knows everything.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

That Socrates was unpretentious almost to a fault, never believing wisdom was his alone or made him superior, but that everyone possessed it if one could only talk it out.

I don't fatten frogs to feed snakes. Are you stupid? I taught you better than that. A wet pussy and a dry purse don't match.

They didn't know that I didn't know anything, and I was hoping to use that to my advantage. The only thing I had going for me was my ignorance. This was the story of my life.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

J'avais vingt ans. Je ne laisserai personne dire que c'est le plus bel âge de la vie.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

you have chosen the person most able to help you grow in emotional maturity.

What would your life be like if you had the courage and wisdom to take charge? What if you made up your mind that from now on for the rest of your life, you alone would decide how you were going to feel? What kind of emotional life would you choose for yourself?

He stresses the wisdom of complaining, of expressing rather than storing negative feelings. These feelings belong to you, not the other person. Expressing them is a proper way of handling them. But criticizing, on the other hand, constitutes a direct attack on your partner's character.

The true net worth of the wise is the wealth that wisdom imparts!

Your level of intelligence is not only a measure of what you have learned, but also a measure of how well you can unlearn and re-learn!