Quotes About Wisdom

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That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Lanier University

Never to have been born is best But if we must see the light, the next best Is quickly returning whence we came. When youth departs, with all its follies, Who does not stagger under evils? Who escapes them? Sophocles' Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, The best would be never to have been born at all. Heinrich Heine2

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Am I boring you, Hirad?" "What do you think?" "Your ignorance is not my concern," said Denser. "Gods falling, Denser, I've been dead ten years. There are gaps in my knowledge." "There were plenty of those when you were alive." "It was part of my charm," said Hirad.

Pity the clever girl who marries for money and then falls in love with her own husband.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing. If you use the best butter, eggs, cream, meat, and other ingredients, and use them carefully and wisely, you will have less waste than if you search for bargains end up with a full garbage pail.

Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

After illumination," Socrates continued, "difficulties continue to arise; what changes is your relationship to them. You see more and resist less. You gain the capacity to turn your problems into lessons and your lessons into wisdom."  

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was." - Rumi

She was right. Peace was the way. She was right. But at the wrong time.

Let us unlearn everything we know only by rote, go back to the beginning, learn all over again.

Age does not guarantee wisdom. And youth is no guarantee of innovation.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.