Quotes About Wisdom

The older a man gets...the longer it takes for him to get a grin organized.

It's only the fool who, because he's fallen once from grace, believes he should never have tried to be in the state of grace to begin with.

Well, god damn it," Cayzer said. "Sometimes I don't know if I was stupid all my life or if I'm just getting stupid with old age. Come on along, you can ask them yourself.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

By the power of the Holy Spirit, he is a man of supernatural prudence. He ponders, prays, discerns, and acts. Prudence is his charioteer.

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

In your eighties you are invisible. Nearing ninety you hope no one sees you.

I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is on the whole preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

An encyclopedia is a book or set of books filled with facts from A to Z. So was Encyclopedia's head. He had read more books than just about anyone in Idaville, and he never forgot what he read.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

People who judge others tell more about Who They Are, than Who They Judge.

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren't always human.

To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser.

If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.

Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.

Intuition is the GPS of Life.

When you are mindful of your intuition, you gain a mind full of inspiration.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Life is too short to learn German