Quotes About Wisdom

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

Wenn Du deine Weisheiten aus einem einzigen Buch klaust, bist Du ein Plagiator. Aber wenn Du aus zehn Büchern klaust, nennt man Dich einen Gelehrten, wenn Du aus dreißig oder vierzig Büchern klaust - einen hervorragenden Gelehrten

How strange that venturing away from accepted wisdom was the very path by which she found herself

Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it.

he married the most beautiful woman he ever saw and learned the irrelevance of beauty.

Mamas are always saying, be careful. Mine said it to me. Yours said it to you. Be careful out a mama's mouth don't mean nothing 'cept protect yourself better than I did.

You want to be choosy about what you let into your soul when you are likely not long for this world.

That's the first step to learning: admitting what you don't know.

wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming , she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

These are the things I know are true ...

A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use.

The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.

I sat down and remembered a saying Old Aunt used to tell me whenever I complained that I had been wrongly accused: "Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head." Don't settle one trouble only to make a bigger one.

Entonces debes enseñarle esta misma lección a mi hija. Cómo perder la inocencia pero no la esperanza. Cómo reír eternamente.

Confucius say a woman is worth a thousand words. Tell your wife she's used up her total

She said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.

Even if I could live forever," she said to the baby, "I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason. "But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well.

Never show a weapon before you have to use it

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.

use your brain as cleverly as you use your hips and mouth.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

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