Quotes About Wisdom

A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.

Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.

The important things to remember she remembered, she told herself. The rest was chaff, which time would have winnowed out of active memory anyway.

The mind that will not admit it has something more to learn tomorrow is in danger of stagnating.

Looking ahead is far more constructive than looking behind, said Robinton. He held his clenched fist up. I'd all the facts in my grasp and I couldn't see the water for the waves.

One can forgive almost anything except one's own stupidities.

How old is too old when you've a right knack with the sick?

La experiencia real es el conocimiento

What I know I wish I didn't. What I'd give anything to know, I have to wait and see.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good, no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances. I'm not old enough yet to imagine the instances where this isn't true and where regret outweighs everything.

La propia ignorancia sigue creciendo precisamente al mismo ritmo que la propia experiencia.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.

The years are cruel. They rob us of our health and our friends and our hopes, and give nothing back. - Pg. 146

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

Page 134 Florence Nightengale is speaking to William Monk Of course. If you know the truth, it takes a gentler and perhaps a wiser woman than Purdence Barrymore not to speak it aloud. She did not understand the arts of diplomacy. I fear that perhaps I do not either. The sick cannot wait for flattery and coercion to do their work.

That is the magical thing about books. You can listen to all the greatest people who have ever lived, anywhere in the world, in any civilization. You can see what is completely different about them, things you never imagined.

Remember, my dear, you are dealing with the world as it is, not as you believe, maybe rightly, that it ought to be. There will be a great many things you can achieve not by attacking them but with a little patience and a modicum of flattery. Stop to consider what it is you really want, rather than pursuing your anger or your vanity to charge in. So often we leap to passionate judgments—when if we but knew the one thing more, they would be so different.

A veces la ignorancia es una especie de salvaguarda.

He was a man of absolutes, he had been for as long as she had known him, and time had deepened his character rather than mellowed it. He was wiser, more mature in judgment and temper than in his youth, but in the last analysis his heart would always rule his head. He was the stuff of crusaders, and of martyrs.

But do not walk slowly simply for company—ever. Not even God would wish you to be unequally yoked and result in destroying both of you—in fact God least of all.

What is the use of knowing everything, if you never actually practise it? They are forever cooking and never eating

A good book changes you,even if it is only to add a little to the furniture of your mind. It will make you laugh and perhaps cry; it should certainly make you think.