Quotes about Wisdom

You can push all that past aside if you want to, but until you understand where people around here came from and why they think the way they do, you won't be able to help them get beyond it. You can't just whisk a magic wand and make the past disappear or rewrite it because you don't like it. You'll never change the present if you do that. You have to learn from what's gone on and work hard if you want to make the future better.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.

I thank him for surviving—and teaching.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.