Quotes About Wisdom

There comes a time in every man's life," he'd said in the halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, "when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

It takes a lifetime to build a life. It only takes a second to ruin it.

Regret is so much harder to live with than failure

Everyone who flees from you falls, everyone who turns to you rises, and everyone who abides in you stands. No wise person forsakes you, only the wise seek you, and no one completely finds you except the pure in heart. Those who forsake you perish. Those who love you, seek you. And those who follow you, have you.

Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

The responsibility of our time is nothing less than a revolution. A revolution that would be peaceful if we are wise enough; humane if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough. But a revolution will come whether we will it or not. We can affect it's character, we cannot alter it's inevitability.

It also demonstrated that far from being an impediment, knowledge is an asset to feminine charm.

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed.

One thing I've learned in a very long life, Mr. Crews, is that there's never enough.

You don't correct a president. You merely compliment them on their wisdom in seeking your counsel.

We fool ourselves. The best of us… the best and the brightest, we're easiest to fool.

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.

You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

What is it? asked the knight. Life, Merlin replied. Life? Yes, said the wise magician. Did it not first seem bitter, then, as you tasted more of it, was it not pleasant? The knight nodded. Yes, and the last swallows were quite delicious. That was when you began to accept what you were drinking. Are you saying that life is good when you accept it? Is it not? replied Merlin, raising an eyebrow in amusement.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.