Quotes About Wisdom

The baby, the star, and the wise men: a story of gifts and radical gratitude. Joy to the world!

If you dig a grave for your neighbour, first measure it for yourself.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

Reading a book is not change the words.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

I used to wish I look like her, awful pretty. But if that prettiness comes with being stupid, I don't want it.

But I felt . . . I still feel . . . . lucky I had the chance to know you.' She puts her arm around my shoulders, very gently, and I can tell she thinks of me as an old lady who needs to be handled with care. She should see me do the shoulder stand in my yoga class.

You don't know nothing, that's what I figured out. You don't know nothing, but you act like god anyway.

We can't always have what we want in life. I should know that by now.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Daniel Wolf's advice—want what you have.

Suddenly everything finally made sense because, paradoxically, I finally accepted that it never would make sense. That's life. It's not all wrapped up with a tidy bow - it's crazy and disorganized and unpredictable, and so are the people who live it.

What better place to kill time than a library?

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL. Earl

Life is meaningless without regrets.

Stupidity is not an infection, it's a condition.

The arrogance of ignorance.

Those who rush up a peak without a plan often end up in the valley below - as food for vultures.

Today's immoral quick fix is tomorrow's gaping and painful wound that never heals.

You don't smack the water with your paddle if you wish to catch fish.

One of his central commands is a commonplace of ancient philosophy, and is a conclusion at which most world religions eventually arrive: 'whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them' – what has come to be known as the Golden Rule.18