Quotes About Wisdom

He thought how the world would feel if it were populated solely by elderly women--a world of forbearance, where all touches were careful.

That was what had changed, he thought. To love posterity and the great institutions you had to believe in the wisdom of men. You had to love them as a child might, gazing upward.

If you want to be happy, never ask for the gift of discernment.

An educated Woggle-Bug may be a new thing; but a Woggle-Bug education is as old as the hills, judging from the display you make of it.

Il cervello è l'unica cosa che valga la pena di avere a questo mondo, non importa se si è corvi o uomini.

This was a girl who could tell the difference between the page that perishes and the page that endures.

Ignorance was a comfortable nest to linger in, in the right sort of circumstances.

We're human. We have emotions and those are sticky and confusing and rarely logical so we do stupid things.' She shrugged, and turned off the car. 'Welcome to the human race. You'll make many more mistakes before your life is done. Accept it, deal with it, and move on.

mistakes were part of living, and the important thing was to learn from the mistakes you made so you didn't make them twice, and to forgive yourself for those mistakes, as well as others for the mistakes they made. She said not forgiving led to bitterness, and a bitter heart was good for nothing.

Your face is lined with beauty from laughter and tears

Besides, her abuela had always said mistakes were part of living, and the important thing was to learn from the mistakes you made so you didn't make them twice, and to forgive yourself for those mistakes, as well as others for the mistakes they made. She said not forgiving led to bitterness, and a bitter heart was good for nothing.

The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It's a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don't choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don't want to be later.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul.

We waste our lives in half truths and nonsense. We waste them.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

The fact of the matter is that our unconscious is wiser than we are about everything.

But the reality of life is such that at times one person does know better than the other what is good for the other, and in actuality is in a position of superior knowledge or wisdom in regard to the matter at hand. Under these circumstances the wiser of the two does in fact have an obligation to confront the other with the problem.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live," said Seneca two millennia ago, "and what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die.