Quotes About Wisdom

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

surprises seldom grow more welcome as one gets older.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love and the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. - Gaston Berger

Yet as I get older—and my Art fades—I find myself increasingly irked by the small matters, the minor annoyances that once I laughed off or brushed aside.

Il lui arrivait souvent de regarder les vieilles dames qui traversaient d'un pas traînant les rues de la ville là ou l'autobus menaçait et savait qu'à l'intérieur de ces corps ratatinés souriaient des visages resplendissants d'adolescentes.

If the trillions of cells in our bodies can run amazingly complex functions without our conscious effort, then we can only imagine the wisdom of Mother Earth that we have not yet learned.

Hemingway said that the best thing a writer can have is "a built-in shit detector.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Scripture: inputting spiritual/gospel truth

Through Scripture, we hear Christ's voice speaking into the outrage, giving us wisdom rather than forcing us to seek it from the chaotic masses. Through prayer, we cast our anxieties and fears upon Christ rather than pouring them out into a vat of outrage. Through fasting, we remind ourselves of the soul's dependence upon Christ and the insufficiency of everything else.

A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt's friend's cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about "all the contradictions in the Bible," it will consume you and your joy.

Imagine learning all the great wisdom of the world just so that you can get a job. What an absurdity. We should be learning all the great wisdom of the world in order to become wise.

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when there was foolish counsel available from his male friends.

Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

You've got your answer then, haven't you?' Lydia nods. She has. She knew it all along. But sometimes it takes an artificially intelligent simulation of a long dead Beatle to put things in perspective.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

Every brand new day is a new lesson.

Every brand new is a new lesson.