Quotes on “wisdom”

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.