Quotes About Wisdom

these words, the angel conveyed a primary purpose of life challenges: to show us how our thoughts and feelings create our reality. Challenges are mirrors that reflect to us our feelings about ourselves. In that sense, they are gifts. Wisdom allows us to recognize them as such.

El verdadero sanador, el verdadero sabio, es el que permanece sabio entre aquellos que todavía no han despertado. Ten valor, y permanece en pie.

From the viewpoint of the soul, no event or course of action is "bad." All is simply experience, and every experience teaches and offers seeds of growth.

I'm getting older everyday, you know. I'm not like a fine wine that just gets better with age. I'm more like a good strong cheese. I can only be aged so long before I start to stink.

If I am just as stupid when I am twenty as I was when I was two, if I am just as stupid when I am a hundred as I was when I was fifty, then I am not doing my job. I am occupying space and time to no purpose, and I might just as well have been a lump of rock.

Know this, and know it well: time is never wasted. Wherever we go, whatever we do, everything is an aspect of education. Even when we don't immediately grasp the lesson.

That is the truth. I know now that we need not fear death, if we have done our tasks. And when we cease to fear death, there is no death. That is the truest truth I know: There is no death.

They were wise in their own skills, but most of them seemed to think that that made them wise in everything, which did not appear to be the case.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Everything I know is what I have been taught by the sayings and writings of people who have studied the sayings and writings of people who have—and so on.

If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it.

We only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson.

Winston Churchill once said: Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Asking for advice means, Tell me what to do. Seeking education means, Tell me what to study so I can learn what I need to do.

In the words of Albert Einstein: Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

But that is not how life teaches you, and I would say that life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up. There's something I want you to learn.

Remember that anything important can't really be learned in the classroom. It must be learned by taking action, making mistakes, and then correcting them. That's when wisdom sets in.

In the big picture, life is not about grades. Life is about what you choose to study.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

When you know you are ignorant in a subject, start educating yourself by finding an expert in the field or a book on the subject.