Quotes About Wisdom

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

This thought of yours is wicked; for it wants to prevent you from correcting your brother. Therefore, do not prevent yourself from speaking; but rather, speak according to God. For, indeed, even sick people that are being healed will speak against their doctors; yet, the latter do not care, knowing that the same people will thank them afterward.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

He who laughs most, learns best

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

Em resumo, há nos homens, quando eles se deixam guiar pelos olhos, uma tal credulidade da qual sua majestosa sabedoria não suspeita, fazendo que os mais avisados dentre eles sejam frequentemente enganados por nós.

To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

Know a man by his metaphors.

He had a love of books, for in books was recorded the knowledge of all those who had gone before him.

Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.

Not every wound needs to be poked and opened, and not every wrong needs to be reexamined, or dragged kicking and screaming into the light. Better just to let the wound heal, even if it doesn't heal quite right, or to leave the wrongs in the dark, and remind yourself not to go stepping into the shadows if you can avoid it.

Regret, he now knew, was a useless emotion, the poor cousin of guilt.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized that I wasn't as clever as I thought

The four ages of man, as far as Williamson was concerned, were confusion, anger, complacency, and grumpiness, but it was important to embrace them in the right order. The

Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it took you so long to realize what you'd been missing.