Quotes About Wisdom

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care.

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they had been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer.

SCIENTIA POTENTIA EST Ã¢â'¬â€œ Wissen ist Macht

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

There is no greater fool than the fool that cannot recognize another. Andreas Simic

time today is worth more than money tomorrow.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

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Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. —From "On Listening to Lectures" by Plutarch

You always go for the gorgeous ones and you always get kicked in the teeth. When are you going to learn?" "Learn what?" "That they don't go for insolvent, failed DJs

what Sigmund Freud said about cats? He said, 'Time spent with cats is never wasted.

And until you're sure there's a cage around a tiger, it's pretty dumb to dangle meat in front of it. Right?

B)ut really, it doesn't matter how big the army is—we just have to deal with the enemies at the very front...We don't have to defeat a whole army all at once. If we fight smart and we don't panic, we'll be good.

Like I said before, I'm ten now, so I've had some time to figure out some stuff.

I'm pretty smart, and I like being smart.

Because books do that—they make us lose some ignorance, and lose some fear. And losing fear might mean losing some anger, too.

The received wisdom is that risk increases in the recession and falls in booms. In contrast, it may be more helpful to think of risk as increasing during upswings, as financial imbalances build up, and materializing in recessions.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches