Quotes About Wisdom

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. —Galileo Galilei

Kaarlo, that gold rush is for fools with no sense, can't you see that we're barely making ends meet, isn't it enough that there's a new baby to feed you might as well just shoot your poor mother it'll be the same thug as letting her lose a son to some foolishness." "Do you think Pappa will send Grandmother away? I wish per to Wilbert. Nah, he whispers back, she's stuck here like a cow in the tidelands.

He gives me a knowing look. "Everything falls apart when you get old. Believe me, you don't want to know how many times I used to get up during the night to pee.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

The old man would call us into his study and say the same three words. "Invest. Cultivate. Create.

Some people are smart. Some people are good." He opened his eyes and put a hand on each of my shoulders. "And some people are both.

I'm older now," Dean said, testing out the possibility. "Wiser, better. I've waited so long, planned so long...." His voice was lower when he profiled, deeper. "Once upon a time, I am an amateur. Now, I'm an artist. Invincible. Unstoppable." "And this time," I said slowly, "you want credit.

Information is power. You can never know ahead of time which pieces will be worth the most.

Better the devil you know than the one you don't—or is it? Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. All that glitters is not gold. Nothing is certain but death and taxes. There but for the grace of God go I.

I was done knowing better , when I didn't really know anything at all.

Quite frankly, I thought that tools who lived in tool houses probably shouldn't throw stones.

It makes perfect sense—Hawthorne sense.

They seem to believe that, left to my own devices, I might do something ill-advised,

Don't judge. I'd missed most of my old English teacher's lecture on proverbs, but there was only one I could think of that started with those two words. Does "Don't judge a book by its cover" mean anything to you? I asked Jameson. His reply was immediate. Very good, Heiress. Then, a moment later: It sure as hell does.

There are different kinds of cleverness, Sara.

But what truth would that be? There were so many to choose from.

What people don't understand, they destroy.

Socrates counts among those great minds who actually cultivated doubt in the name of truth.

We seem obsessed with motivation, rallying ourselves to something beyond the life available to us right now, and we treat this motivation as if it were a major part of the history of wisdom, which it is not.

For Epicurus, living prudently, in deep appreciation of modest pleasures, was not just the route to happiness, it was happiness.

Expect change. Accept death. Enjoy life. As Marcus Aurelius explained, the brains that got you through the troubles you have had so far will get you through any troubles yet to come.

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

The great Anna Faris once said that the secret of surviving high school is to "lay low.

And sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for