Quotes About Wisdom

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them the right way.

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".

Religion is a distraction from true education.

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.