Quotes About Wisdom

I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.

And suddenly you know: that was enough. You rise and there appears before you in all its longings and hesitations the shape of what you lived. Book of Images

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has; that is why the gods are always young.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

If she had had daughters, Beatrice reflected, what advice she would have given them! She would have told them that the time for display was limited, that the years would add weight, both physically and metaphorically, that a time would come when second thoughts were wiser than heedless impulses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ She would have urged them to enjoy men, as many men as possible, before they became aware, as she was now, of the neutered state that awaited them.

Perhaps what I was registering was nothing more than the passage of time, to which one should pay great attention, lest one remain fixed in past expectations, without noticing how foolish one had become.

She always believed in the old adage, "Leave them while you're looking good."

Money was not everything, because after all, it is only brains that count.

I'm now old enough to personally identify every object in antique stores.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

As children, in our own school of life, we soak up clues about our world just as eagerly as small squirrels. Exposure to children's books provides verbal and visual material to help us along the way. So subtle and varied can the lessons be that it may take years before we use everything we absorbed.

Jerry J. Mallett: From it I learned that it is never too late to have your life changed by a children's book.

Nick Clark: Books are so important in conveying messages to children. We may not fully appreciate the impact of a book until we are older, but there are things that we learn from our reading.

Books hold our culture, our past, other worlds, the antidote for sadness.

Everybody's young to me, Hazel Marie," I said, feeling every year of my age.

You'd better have a firm foundation when you go out into the world. There's no telling what you'll run into.

Clichés so often befall vain people.

Don't be daft, lad. I've worked with more loonies than you've had hot dinners. And I don't just mean the offenders.

In the old days she would have dug in her heels, but she was old and canny enough to realize there was no point starting battles you could never win.

As the rest of them aged and raged against the good night to come, he faced it with equanimity, even with amusement. Death, he said, was the last big adventure.

her judgement had been spoton.

There was a sort of magic in his asking the right questions the first time, picking up the clues in a situation, knowing when it was time to move on.

the future depends on seeing reality clearly. But for some reason, we are easily manipulated and deceived.