Quotes About Wisdom

The young reinvent the universe," he said. "And they give the new universe to us as their gift. But sometimes the young make terrible mistakes. The young need the wisdom of the old. The man smiled. They do and they don't, he said.

She has been my guiding lamp many a time

Old age had taught me to respect danger.

So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." "An absence of need for illusions," he said.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. ? Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

You're too clever for your creed, my friend. Forsake it.

Ah, Stefan, give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you perhaps give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.

I've been too young for too long.

What tribe on earth has not had elders? How much of our art and our knowledge comes from those who've lived into old age? You sound like Lestat when you say such things, speaking of his Savage Garden. The world has never seemed a hopelessly savage place to me.

In my country they have proverb: 'Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.' " This was intriguing. Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

those who forget the past tend to regret the future

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

If you can't say something nice,' " Jason mumbled, " 'don't say nothing at all.'

This was when I was still very young, of course. Back then I thought I understood nearly everything.

You're old for so much longer than you're young, she thinks. Really it hardly seems fair.

How was it that she had never realized the power of the young back when she was young herself?

You're old for so much longer than you're young, she thinks. Really it hardly seems fair.

And then that clear-eyed, calm-faced boy would shine forth from Red's sags and wrinkles, from his crumpled eyelids and hollowed cheeks and the two deep crevices bracketing his mouth and just his general obtuseness, his stubbornness, his infuriating belief that simple cold logic could solve all of life's problems, and she would feel unspeakably lucky to have ended up with him.

she was old, she would have total confidence, finally. But look at her: still uncertain.

Just once he'd like to see a hero like himself—not a quitter, but a man who did face facts and give up gracefully when pushing onward was foolish. He

It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently use. It is also safe to assume that they also have considerably more facts than they can process effectively. Giving them even more facts adds to the wrong pile. They don't need more facts. They need help finding their wisdom. Contrary to popular belief, bad decisions are rarely made because people don't have all the facts.

Marianne Faithful

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.