Quotes About Wisdom

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

The more you talk about It and the more you think about It, the further from It you go; stop talking, stop thinking and there is nothing you will not understand.

There is no real parallel to this in science, which abhors error, and which concerns matters in which naïveté cannot be distinguished from ignorance.

It is not enough to read Hesse and drink clam chowder, we must have the answers.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

In spiritu et veritate ibi est magicae in omnibus

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

She refused to let common sense cloud her judgment.

Lets ignore our mothers' well-meant advice.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.

Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT ME doesn't mean you should actually do it. And just because two giant ravens point you in the direction of a path doesn't mean you should take it. But it was the only path she had.

There is a way the truth hits you, both hard and gentle at the same time. It punches you in the stomach as it puts its loving arm around your shoulder. Yes, I am terrible to behold, the truth says. But you suspected it all along, didn't you? And isn't better, now that you know? Now, at least, it all makes sense.

The witch raised one careful eyebrow. "I? I want nothing," she told Hazel. "Don't you see? I want nothing.

There are differences between facts and truths. Facts are something you now in your brain; truths are things you know in your heart.

Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories.

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

KNOWING when to quit may be my greatest victory.

Because of where we've been, we might not ever totally grow up. Is that so bad? Other adults spend fortunes trying to revive their inner children, trying to be wide-eyed, curious, creative, playful, even vulnerable again. We are already that way. We have always been that way, and we can stay that way. Bring hard-won wisdom, courage, and awareness into it, but candor, laughter, tender sympathy for crying kings and birds with broken wings: these we can keep.

When people began to throw stones at him, Shibli—so the legend has it—threw a rose, and Hallaj sighed. Asked the reason for his sigh, he answered: "They do not know what they do, but he should have known it." And the saying that "the rose, thrown by the friend, hurts more than any stone" has become a Turkish proverb.