Quotes About Wisdom

It is all right to be simply the way you have to be, among contradictory ridges in some crescendo of knowing.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed: you may be heroic, but you will not be wise. If you have things right in your life but do not know why, you are just lucky, and you will not move in the little ways that encourage good fortune.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them--those are you, Those are why you are in the world.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

On the temple to Athena at Athens was inscribed the epigram "All human things are a circle"—a sentiment echoed by Greco-Roman philosophers from Aristotle to Marcus Aurelius.

The farther backward you look, the farther forward you are likely to see," Winston Churchill once said.

Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe after a while, a better reason will pop into your head.

As the saying goes, in the hanged man's home don't mention the rope.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: "To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

It was our capacity to learn from the experiences of others that gave Homo sapiens an enormous local advantage, with new strategies and innovations built on a platform of prior discoveries. As a consequence, each generation had no need to reinvent the wheel, and a child could acquire an understanding of the world that a few generations back would have been available only to geniuses.

A teacher must read. How can a teacher justify not reading? A teacher must love books. You people are making a tragic mistake in your school leadership by placing people who do not read into positions of authority. Cag the alien in "Them" William W. Johnstone

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

the golden pathway to learning, not just in music but in anything in life, is through one's own, individual, honest mistakes.