Quotes About Wisdom

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

There is no other way to know good from evil, right from wrong, unless we have His Word dwelling richly in our heart. It's good for us to spend time in His Word.

Truth is child of Time.

And I longed to tell Uncle Lawrence, to show him I knew when to keep quiet. But I'd long since found out that too often we can't say the very thing that will redeem us. And if that isn't being grown-up, I don't know what is.

I'm a patient man, Ebie. I had to learn that in prison. But I learned other things, too. That there is so much trouble in this world, we need to do everything we can, every day of our lives, to stop trouble from happening. Not cause it.

Myself, mad, wise, I know the taste of burning tears.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.

I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.

books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.

at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

My doctor says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, she doesn't believe our memories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because of how crowded it in the drawers of our minds.

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

Control is a nice concept, little more.

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

It was a puzzle to her, how eagerly she'd rushed into life when she was eighteen or twenty, and in what a desultory fashion it had dragged out ever since.

There are really only two commandments of Nanaville: love the grandchildren, and hold your tongue.