Quotes About Wisdom

Being able to read and write did not provide the answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

You think too much,' said Ellis.

Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a single day. As the carriage rattled along, rocking her like a babe in arms, Mary felt very old and wise. She found that she didn't mind being taken back to the castle, to a caring captivity that was filled with comforts and kindness. And she also found that she couldn't keep her eyes open.

I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Dominant people, it appears, use snap judgements and conform to received wisdom more than do the less dominant. Those who need power, and those who have it, think differently.

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

What's broken is broken—and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler — smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

Oh, what a mess life was! Why had she been such an idiot as to marry Charles of all people and have her life end at sixteen?

Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things

We should have paid heed to cynics like Butler who knew, instead of statesmen who felt—and talked.

She was a woman now and youth was gone.

If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is

Until you have lost your reputation you never know what a burden it was or what freedom is.

Si los que empezaran una guerra no la declarasen sagrada, ¿quién sería tan bobo que fuese a combatir?