Quotes About Wisdom

But I have to accept the fact that I am often unwise; that I am not always loving; that I make mistakes; that I am, in fact, human. And as Christians we are not meant to be less human than other people, but more human, just as Jesus of Nazareth was more human.

We don't know what things LOOK like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things ARE like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

Qui plus sait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

He is : frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to face how little we know.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

I'm convinced the same thing is true in all other kinds of crisis, too. We react to our conditioning built up of every single decision we've made all our lives; who we have used as our mirrors; as our points of reference. If our slow and reasoned decisions are generally wise, those which have to be made quickly are apt to be wise, too. If our reasoned decisions are foolish, so will be those of the sudden situation.

I don't know. We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

I 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.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

I don't underestimate knowledge. But we get into trouble when we confuse it with truth.

The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world

There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.

Remember you have to go at his speed not your own...Adults take longer at this kind of thing then we do, particularly adults...who [haven't] tried new thoughts for a long time...but sometimes adults can go deeper then we can, if we're patient.

You just look at things nobody else can see,' Dennys added, 'and listen to things nobody else can hear, and think about them.' Meg defended her mother. 'It would be a good idea if more people knew how to think. After Mother thinks about something long enough, then she puts it into practice. Or someone else does.

When Sporos Deepens," Proginoskes told Mr. Jenkins, "it means that he comes of age. It means that he grows up. The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.

Un asno viejo sabe más que un potro. A. Perez. An old ass knows more than a young colt.

The Greeks in their wisdom had four words for our one, love: there was charity, agapé; sexual love, eros; family love, storgé; friendship, philia.

The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the

Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

I don't go along with the people who say they'd never want to live their childhoods again; I treasure every bit of mine, all the pains as well as the joy of discovery. But I also love being a grownup. To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look towards the future.

Fiction, in a less direct way, will teach me, teach me things I would never learn had I not opened myself to them in story.

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there.