Quotes About Wisdom

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

Is this true or only clever?

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

When passion rules, she never rules wisely.

If your head is made of wax, don't walk in the sun

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.

There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.

Live a life that transcends your own!

The child is the father of the man.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?