Quotes About Wisdom

You're a philosopher." "No. Just drunk.

Don't be stupid. Of course I'll help you. We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.

It's not necessary to fill every moment with your own voice. Silence terrifies you. You see your own existence as so tenuous that you're afraid you'll pop like a bubble if, at every opportunity, you don't remind the world that you're alive. But wisdom begins in silence. In learning to listen. To words and to the world. Trust me. You won't disappear. And, in time, you might find that you've grown into something unexpected." "What?

Proximity to normalcy is a nice turn of phrase; you ought do a needlepoint, frame it and shove it straight up your ass. Keep it there with the rest of your wisdom.

There's the other secret of love. Our hearts don't age at the same rate as the rest of our bodies. You can be old on the inside long before you're old outside.

Are all these from dead men?" Steinmetz leaned against the cabin door. "They're not all men's, and yes.

All great men begin as fools. It's one of life's little jokes.

I wonder if this is one of those things they call a "teachable moment." What it's supposed to teach me, I have no idea.

Dying isn't the worst thing in the world, but dying because you're stupid is.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Never underestimate the power of stupid

Avoid hard work. Don't push water uphill. Be very selective in what you do. Have a great life.

George Bernard Shaw lo expresó a la perfección: «El hombre sensato se adapta al mundo. El hombre insensato insiste en intentar que el mundo se adapte a él. Por lo tanto, todo el progreso depende de hombres insensatos».

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

For ever has it been that Faith and Love allow us to see clearly what we cannot see by eyes alone.

As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.

But this is partly because men do not consider either how secret and lofty the heavenly wisdom is, or how very dull men are to perceive the mysteries of God; partly because they do not have regard to that firm and steadfast constancy of heart which is the chief part of faith.

For the man, therefore, who has the duty of saying wisely even what he cannot say eloquently, it is supremely necessary that he should have the words of the Scriptures at his fingertips. For the poorer he perceives himself to be in his own words, the richer it behooves him to be in those of Scripture.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

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I have a soft spot in my heart for tree houses, which have always imparted certain magic and practical knowledge.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." —CROWFOOT, CHIEF OF THE SIKSIKA FIRST NATION, 1890