Quotes on “wisdom”

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.