Wisdom Quotes

“The older I get, the less I know. By the time I'm 80, I'll be a raving idiot.”

“To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

“The third law of ecology is that nature knows best.”

“Stop trying to cure the information disease with more information.”

“The year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”

“Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right every time.”

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

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

“Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.”

“Let us not be so ill-advised, men of Athens, as to throw away the great blessings we have in our hands in our eagerness for what we have not.”

“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.”

“You can't do a good deal with a bad guy.”

“The first wisdom of sociology is this—things are not what they seem.”

“Knowledge is not what you know but what you can do with what you know.”

“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”

“Consider in silence whatever any one says: for it is not every speaker that is a master of his words.”

“I was forced to accept the fact that the powerful are not necessarily the wise, the righteous, or the just.”

“You have to listen more than you play.”

“Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.”