The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension… Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
