Quotes About Wisdom

Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

I like to understand things," Meg said. "We all do. But it isn't always possible.

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That's how it works best.

We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel that we already know something in its totality, then we fail to keep our ears and eyes open to that which may expand or even changes that which we so zealously think we know.

The minute anybody starts telling you what God thinks, or exactly why he does such and such, beware.

Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.

There's something a little humiliating about having to accept that, at fifty-one, one is naïve. I am. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

An old ass knows more than a young colt

Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he?

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.

If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It's the knowing when that's important.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand thinga for them to be.

The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we are, we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.

I'm too young and the world is too old

Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.