Quotes About Wisdom

May this act of generosity be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

We all face this same choice when dealing with problems. We don't ask for them. We don't want them. But the way we deal with them is what's most important. If we are wise, the greatest problems can lead to the greatest insights.

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear god laugh

Truth never seems obvious until it is known.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine." –Joan Collins

Where did you learn that?" Vein asked, still staring. "I read," Bruno said evenly. "I talk less than the rest of you. It gives me time.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.

Brian: I love books Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?

its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education.

But like my dad used to say, the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity that it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley, especially from where I'm sitting.

In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees.

But perhaps it's a delusion for each generation to think that they know better than their parents. If this were true, than parental wisdom would increase with time like the processing power of computer chips, refining over generations, and we'd how be living in some utopia of openness and understanding. (pag.288)

He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss of a parent. If he were only in possession of this equipment, he would be just fine. He would be noble and selfless, wise and philosophical. Perhaps he would even have kids of his own, and would presumably possess the kind of maturity that comes with fatherhood, the understanding of life as a process.

He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss of a parent. If he were only in possession of this equipment, he would be just fine. He would be noble and selfless, wise and philosophical.

Don't run before you ca walk.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions…which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

Through a long life, Franklin had been forced by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions . . . which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

I don't like it when really smart people do things that seem dumb. Makes me think I'm figuring something wrong.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

They are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination.