Quotes About Wisdom

For if old women gossiping at evening as the ages go by, spin wisdom as the spider in old barns spins gossamer, then Mrs. Tichener had a great store of wisdom, in which little ancient facts were caught up as is dust in the spider's web. And if these things are all vanity, what are we?

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance" ~ Bernard Shaw

It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. " - Anon

dog knew what the words meant.

Just remember, being young is nice, but being old is comfortable.

Un hombre inteligente siempre sabe cuando retirarse a tiempo...pero un hombre aun mas inteligente sabe cuando volver a empezar

Ideen braucht man nur, wenn man nichts erlebt

in the beginning God created light . . . to read by.

When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.

A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness. An unwise move, good God, you could squander everything.

When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

Philosophers are good at parties but not for cleaning up after.

What was education for, if not to acquire contradictions? At least it looked like that to me.

If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.

She should stay here with him, unorphan him with love's unorphaning, live wise and simple in a world monstrous enough for years of whores and death, and poems of whores and death, so monstrous how could one live in it at all? One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

Life was long enough so that you can keep relearning things. Think and feel and realize again what you used to know.

Always in motion is the future," Yoda reminded himself. "Know this you do. Heed your own lessons you should.

The use of behavior modification and cognitive therapy techniques that were designed to replace Christ and the Scriptures with human wisdom (Prov. 16:25) cannot produce in an angry child the fruit of the Spirit. That

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (Prov. 15:1;

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.

was nine when she passed. The last thing she told us was Be good to one another.

Like the shaman, a teacher has to have a clear vision so that a student can come to believe that he or she sees something real that can be shared. The teacher's message must be "I know something you don't know, something you don't have, but I am committed to sharing it with you and bringing you on this journey.