Wisdom

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

We gain from the new science of mind not only insights into ourselves - how we perceive, learn, remember, feel, believe and act - but also a new perspective of ourselves and our fellow human beings in the context of biological evolution.

Take away the pomp and circumstance, at the end of the day, only eternal things will be truly celebrated.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

Conscious rebukes from doing wrong.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

Just because we’ve made poor or wrong choices in the past, does not limit us from making wise and good choices now.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality.

I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do,' said Magnus, still looking at Alec, 'you will never learn from your mistakes.

Patience is the virtue that forges great men.

I have learned that the first step to letting go is to accept the facts.

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.