Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

We must learn from the past, but we cannot dwell in the past.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Recognize that killing a weak idea early is valuable.

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

I haven't got enough sense not to pitch.

I learned to bat and bowl on different pitches and knew when to go hard and when to back off. It was just something I learned.

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.

The guest artists pass on not only their experiences but also the pitfalls.

I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.