Quotes about Wisdom

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience. Keep your head up, keep your shoulders back, keep your self-respect, be nice, be smart. And remember that there are practically no overnight successes.

That was what had changed, he thought. To love posterity and the great institutions you had to believe in the wisdom of men. You had to love them as a child might, gazing upward.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It's a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don't choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don't want to be later.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.