Quotes About Wisdom

They are much more interested in producing information than consuming it.

knowledge is for the mind and experience is for the body.

Am I a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, or a Jew? I do not know . . . for Truth has set fire to these words.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push at it, stretch it, it will never be enough. You kick at it, beat at it, it will never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment you leave dying.

The Only Good Greed Is Greed For Enlightening Experiences

The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths

Time is an abstraction of eternity. A glimpse, for mortals, of what could be if we spend ours wisely in life.

Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.

Those who don't know history are destined to be tyrannized by it

Be careful that the hill you die on isn't a molehill

There is a reason why past is past.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

at the end of all our exploring we will arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

In school, you get the lesson and then take the test; in parenting, you take the test and then get the lesson.

Education is not about scoring an A grades as you may think always, education is about acquiring Wisdom and Knowledge with full scale implementation. That's why I am educated ever.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

The last editorial meeting I had was with a 24 year-old Vassar grad who tried to explain to me (after I had been selling novels longer than she had been alive) how to write a book. I kept my cool and was nice to the human, but as Kris and I walked down the sidewalk after that meeting, I remember my only words were 'I'm done with this shit.