Quotes About Wisdom

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Liberal learning is that which underlies, that which gives purpose and direction to practical skills. It tries to distinguish between the more and the less important, between the grand and the trivial, and to concern itself rather with the center than with the periphery.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

The oldster looked at his Crowner, his brows lifted high over his pale eyes, adding wrinkles to an already wrinkled brow.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has," believed Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus. And as an old Buddhist proverb states: "'Enough' is a feast.

Be it man or tree or institution, it is better to die too early than too late.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One can anyway only be shown something one knows already, needs already. Showing anyone anything really amounts to removing the last thin film that prevents their seeing what they are looking at.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.

If you don't see it with your own eyes or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.