Quotes About Wisdom

If you know less than everything, you always feel inadequate.

To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes

I haven't got time to explain it to you, kid, but—that's not how the Force works.

No es vergonzoso admitir que no se sabe todo. Es una muestra de sabiduría, que es un talento mucho mas preciado que la fuerza física, o la capacidad de influir en la fuerza

I've lived for over one thousand years, son. Long enough to see the same eyes in different people.

Women always figure out the truth.

Higher learning does not preclude the presence of lower minds.

Usually a senile old fool knows when to retire. But sometimes he simply needs to be retired.

His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been forced to deal with idiots all too often.

One could teach knowledge. One could teach skills. One could even, she knew, teach something of the Force. But patience had to be learned alone.

Sometimes you have to be satisfied just to know that cobra venom is deadly. It's not always efficacious to study the snake face to face. You have to balance what you might learn against the known chance of getting bit.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o'clock every night. I would have played more. Laughed more. I would have hugged my parents and told them I loved them. But I was ten years old, and I had no idea of the nightmare that was to come. None of us did.

Good books shouldn't be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.

If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o'clock every night. I would have played more. Laughed more. I would have hugged my parents and told them I loved them.

It rejected the temptation to punish its opponents as the Europeans had done at Versailles, recognizing the wisdom of Herbert Hoover's advice to Harry Truman in 1946 that "you can have vengeance, or peace, but you can't have both.

These are classic insiders—the fussy traditionalists who operate close to the center and seldom break with convention. In such traditionalistic organizations, intelligence and decision making tend to be drawn out from the reservoir of inherited wisdom. These inherited ideas are seen to be inviolable, even sacrosanct.

When I was ten, I read fairy stories in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

To read old books is to get an education in possibility for next to nothing.

one of the greatest dangers for a Chrisitian is to assume that any point in our lives that our journey is over and that we have all the answers.

He who understands all but lacks Self Knowledge lacks all.

When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.