Quotes About Wisdom

Most people feel they lack the intelligence to find the right way for them, but this is merely misunderstanding. Intelligence has nothing to do with college degrees or reading books. True intelligence is a willingness to exchange a fallacy for a fact.

Right thinking comes from being aware of the truth or the reality of any situation.

belief is the death of intelligence.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

You've reached the voice of reason; be reasonable!

What does common sense have to do with it?" he exploded. "We're talking about a job interview!

Poor knowledge and misguided expectations lead to a lot of bad decisions.

Education is a public good that builds the capacity of a nation to wisely govern itself, and promotes equal opportunity.

Cognitively, grasp of just one concept is the sound of one hand clapping.

Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

Anything too stupid to be spoken," he asserted, "is sung.

the guiding factor in a decision is often not the one that counsels most wisely; it's one that has recently been brought to mind.

Actually he wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For some obscure reason, a central distinction had been lost as the years eroded the accurate version of his statement to mean something entirely different and, upon close inspection, entirely silly.44

as Sir Joshua Reynolds noted, "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

es una vieja máxima de las escuelas / que la adulación es el alimento de los tontos».

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking." With

Only later in life did I learn that failure can be the best teacher

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

It is one of the secrets of happiness that you know which battles you can win and which you can't.

Too much positive is either scared or stupid or both. Reality is uncertain.

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it. That is all there is for any of us.

The Soul's Upward Yearning by Fr. Robert Spitzer, the intergalactically smart Jesuit who once served as president of Gonzaga University and who now directs the Magis Center on matters of faith, reason, and science,

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.