Quotes About Wisdom

Pero recuerda: siempre, siempre, serás inmortal. La Gran Verdad es que todos lo somos. Y lo único que te diferencia es que tú ya lo sabes. Los demás aún no.

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

I was taught by a great man, never to hate - and never to fear.

Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine. The

reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

Truth is one: (though) the wise call it by various names.

Living carefree is overrated & living cautious is underrated.

Knowledge is great; wisdom is even better.

instead of saying "fifty-five and older," say "fifty-five and better.

In the fool's mind, there are many choices; in the wise man's mind, there are few.

los tres rasgos del liderazgo creíble señalados por Aristóteles: virtud, desinterés y sabiduría práctica.

There is no excuse among professional officers for not having a 5000 year old mind.

Great minds sink alike, right?

Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

Neither the spiritual nor the material repression of sadness reflects the depth of contemplative life. The great irony is that the very effort to feel joy (or relief) prevents its fruition. Perhaps counterintuitively, it is the surrender to sadness that causes it to pass—not the suppression of it. The gestures of opening, making-space, giving-way—these enable a delicious relinquishment, a setting down of the burden, even, perhaps, a kind of wisdom.

Robert Frost suggested (with his usual sly wit) that a person uneducated in the operations of metaphor was not safe in the world, should not even be let out of doors.

Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters.

It's only a mistake if you don't learn from it

older, I've got a clear space around me I didn't have before. I wonder if that's like a future, or a place where a future will be.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.