All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.”

“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

“I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.”

“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”

“To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

“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.”

“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. ”

“I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.”

“You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.”

“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”

“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”

“Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.”