Quotes About Wisdom

Pentru ca în creierul unui tâmpit s? se contureze un gând, e nevoie s? i se întâmple multe lucruri ÅŸi tare crunte.

Plus de mystère, plus de niaiserie, on a bouffé toute sa poésie puisqu'on a vécu jusque-là. Des haricots, la vie.

youth may be nothing more than a hurry to grow old.

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

Always look kindly on the old, Bairbre . . . Because they have loved people so much longer than you have, they have so very much more to lose . . .

The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

That some things we're not supposed to know. We have to look as hard as we can, then know when it's time to give up. That's the time we have to lay the whole thing to rest.

My mother reads the Bible every morning," Dianne said. "She's told me a million times: 'Man sees the appearance, but the Lord looks into the heart.' From Samuel.

We cut and sell the apple tree's branches and then are shocked there's no fruit.

Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

As a librarian I learned one of life's great truths: you don't have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.

A man who works cannot dream. And it is only through dreams that we achieve wisdom.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

The way to stay young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.

You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience. Keep your head up, keep your shoulders back, keep your self-respect, be nice, be smart. And remember that there are practically no overnight successes.

I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn't so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)

What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.

That is one of the advantagers of being thirteen. You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve