Quotes about Wisdom

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.

It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.

We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

only that "WHO-center" were obvious and accessible, and if only we could steer our course by it, knowing truly that God is in all things and all choices, seeking to draw the more life-giving outcome from all we do.

It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding.

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.