Quotes About Wisdom

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

Don't 'Father' me! I can tell a hawk from a handsaw. Anybody can, Grandmother Hazel commented. The Hawk class is a purely commercial type while the Hanshaw runabout is a sport job. Come to think about it, boys, a Hanshaw might be better than a Douglas.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You butt into other people's business.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of a man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance; he saw no point in "measurements

When will I learn? Had Boss wished to disclose the method, he would have told me. "Careless slips sink ships." Not around Boss.)

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of a man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance; he saw no point in "measurements" when he did not know what he was measuring.

It says in Little Women that a bride should be half her husband's age plus seven years. Zebadiah and I hit close to that.

No. 'Grok' is the most important word in the language—and I expect to spend years trying to understand it.

however the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

What's that got to do with it? Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." "There's

Don't be in such a rush. It just slows you down.

Major Reid smiled cynically. "I have never been able to see how a thirty-year-old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year-old genius . . . but that was the age of the 'divine right of the common man.' Never mind, they paid for their folly.

beauty will lure a man into bed, but it won't bring him back a second time, unless he's awfully young or very stupid.

A doctorate is a union card to get a tenured job. It does not mean that the holder thereof is wise or learned.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

They made solemn pronouncements about conditions a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, on the basis of computer models, which they had produced with computers not even bright enough to talk, let alone understand speech. They were unlike all the generations before theirs in several ways, but chiefly in that they had no faintest clue how ignorant they were. Previous ages had usually had a pretty good handle on that.

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One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die … and accepts his sentence undismayed.

There is a story of a spiritual seeker who one day came to his master and asked, "In the olden days it is said that there were people who walked and talked with God. Why doesn't this happen anymore?" The master replied, "Because nowadays no one will stoop so low.

Many people use the energy of their nostalgia for paradise trying to get back to a previous state of grace, back to childhood. This is not possible, and people are wiser to use their energy to progress to the Heavenly Jerusalem. Regression is deadly; progression wins one's soul.

The beginning of wisdom is a firm grasp of the obvious.