Quotes About Wisdom

Uno olvida mucho más lo que sale de su boca que lo que entra por sus oídos

De waarheid is nooit glashelder, blijft altijd een warnet. Zelfs als de draden ontrafelt zijn

We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski put it, we see further because we "stand on the shoulders"5 of the previous generation. The danger of such a position is that we can forget to put our own feet on the ground.

The question of who is offering us feedback doesn't seem like it should matter. Regardless of the source, the advice is either wise or foolish, the ideas worthwhile or worthless. But it does matter. We are often more triggered by the person giving us feedback than by the feedback itself. In fact, relationship triggers may be the most common derailers of feedback conversations.

It is said that all advice is autobiographical

we don't know what we don't know.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

Mistakes can bring us to spiritual heights, or depths, which we would have otherwise not visited.

Living in the answer, while forgetting the question that gave birth to it, will cause the answer to become mechanical, habitual, or dispirited. Conversely, living only in the question can lead to confusing or debilitating uncertainty and ambiguity. We need both.

Learning the lessons of life can be so simple if you believe in immortality.

Feed the truth. Starve the lie.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

Knowledge is power, Bane. My purpose is to give you that knowledge. It is up to you to figure out how best to use it.

But you must always remind yourself that a Jedi values wisdom and enlightenment over all else. The great truths we seek are often difficult to find, and sometimes it is easier to seek out an enemy to do battle with Ã¢â'¬Â¦ especially when we hunger to avenge those who have fallen. This is one of the ways even good people can fall to the dark side.

Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak

I will continue to study at your feet, Master. I will learn from your wisdom. I will discover your secrets, unlocking them one by one until everything you know—all your knowledge and all your power—is mine. And once you are no longer of use to me, I will destroy you. One day I will surpass you. And on that day I will kill you, Lord Bane. But that day is not today.

Any Master who instructs more than one apprentice in the ways of the dark side is a fool.

Only fools charge head without knowing what lies in wait. – Scourge

The salarians had a saying: the mind with many secrets can never rest.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see

a man, who like Satan, momentarily thought himself the equal of God and who, with all the humility of a Christian, came to realize in God's hands alone reside supreme power and infinite wisdom.