Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

Like anyone who has a relationship with Jesus knows, the coolest thing about it is that it's infinite how much you can learn and begin to understand. It's something that grabbed me.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

Beware of the easy path. Knowledge grows only through challenge.

People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.