Quotes About Wisdom

God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect... The best a man can do is to remain silent...The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

The best a man can do is to remain silent, because any time he prates on about God, he is committing the sin of lying. The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

The cliché goes that at twenty a person has the face that God gave him, but at forty he has the face he has earned.

As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

Didn't anyone ever tell you that the mouth is the front gate of all misfortune?

The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

It is the rare young writer who does not fall in love with the idea of becoming famous, and Melville was no exception. When he remarked years later to Hawthorne that no man "who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows," he was reproving his younger self for having craved it.

As my grandmother told me — never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it. So ignore him and vote, Florida!"

know how to turn a failed experiment into a life lesson

Nosotros solíamos decir que el cerebro sin aplicación es como la belleza sin bondad. Es un desperdicio.

He usually smoked a cigarette and sat down and introduced himself to someone and chatted—in the sweetest, calmest, most amiable way, poised, adult, and wise.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Just as in financial investing, you must invest in your knowledge portfolio regularly.

Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and where he's headed; when it comes to looking back or entertaining heretical thoughts, he has neither the time nor the inclination. All that counts is that he is going somewhere. Only as ambition wanes does education become a possibility.

I have little tolerance for noise and stupidity.

So much of what we see and hear is not the truth of any given situation; sometimes it's necessary to close the eyes and be still, to extend our awareness beyond what we've been conditioned to believe is our field of sensory operation. Only then can we learn the patience to trust that all the information that we need will come to us.

A Stitch in Time May save Nine.

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

You know that you've healed an issue when you can talk about it and you're not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you've healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.