Quotes About Wisdom

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

People accept only that person as their leader who is radiant with good knowledge and karma (deeds).

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

Books are good.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

When I was young, I was older than I am today.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

When God made man she was practicing.

The old theory was "Marry an older man, because they're more mature." But the new theory is: "Men don't mature. Marry a younger one."

A wise man is free from passions, though Kant admits that, as the passions are so all-pervasive, we may have to search for this wise man in the moon.

How fine to be willing to admit that one does not know what one does not know, instead of spewing out such nonsense and disgusting oneself!' (Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods).

A wise man listens to gain knowledge and not to debate.

A wise man waits until everyone else has spoken.

Do not humiliate, disrespect or embarrass; always speak with a soft tongue when holding your ground. To be loud, rude and obnoxious will negate the argument and advantage. And truth is always mandatory.

Only wisdom can teach us when it's best to say nothing.