Quotes About Wisdom

All age is a kind of tiredness, I think. When you're young, the lines never show. Every morning you wake unmarked, wiped clear by sleep. One day, though, you see lines that itch, as though some crumb of existence has been creased into your skin. They can never be smoothed away, and after a while you forget that this heavy, irritable feeling wasn't always there.

I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early

Dogs did not waste time dwelling on the past, nor did they worry about the future. One could learn a great deal about positive thinking from them

it's only a mistake if it kills you or if you fail to learn from it

I'm an author, Calista. The older I get, the more I'm convinced that a truth only makes sense when it is revealed in the form of a story. Without that context it is simply a random event with no meaning.

My task is teach my students how to ask the right questions.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

In a road-mender's hut near Vézelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: "La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau." ("Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.")

Do not marry a very young man, you know not how he may turn out; it is a lottery at best but it is a very just remark that "it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's scorn".

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest; it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings.

It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it... And just in case thou art not all that, we will fix it with a bit of cleverness in reconstructing reality!

Sip Someone else's logic then spit it out

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Advice, n. the smallest current coin.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.