Quotes About Wisdom

why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?

When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it? But the world without light is wasteland and chaos, and a life without sacrifice is abomination.

He is careful of what he reads, for this is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, as this is what he will know.

a few of the principles by which I live: A good gag is worth any amount of time, money and effort; never draw to fill an inside straight; always keep score in games, never in love; never say 'Muskrat Ramble'; always keep them guessing; never listen to the same conversation twice; and (this is the hard part) listen to no one.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful; it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.

The interior life is often stupid.

It is a weakening and discoloring idea that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time but that it is too late for us. There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less. There is no whit less enlightnment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree.

If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs, then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.

Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

Martin Buber tells this tale: "Rabbi Mendel once boasted to his teacher Rabbi Elimelekh that evenings he saw the angel who rolls away the light before the darkness, and mornings the angel who rolls away the darkness before the light. 'Yes,' said Rabbi Elimelekh, 'in my youth I saw that too. Later on you don't see these things any more.

Wisdom tells me I'm nothing. But love tells me I'm everything.

Maybe Flicker's power made her think differently than most people. She saw the world from so many perspectives, and seeing was half of enlightenment.

I'm here to learn. And what you have taught me is to avoid love as long as possible.

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima

One faces the future with one's past. —Pearl S. Buck

and kisses are a better fate than wisdom —e. e. cummings, "since feeling is first

The wisdom of the crowd, Aya. If a million people look at a puzzle, chances are that one of them knows the answer. Or maybe ten people each know one piece, and that's enough to put it all together.

Blessed are the poor, for they know that their riches are in the One who being rich made himself poor in order to enrich us with his poverty, teaching us the Christian's true wisdom." —January 29, 1978

At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.

Zekiysen nefret eder, aptalsan küçümserler.

A man's memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can't do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?

we are never old to ourselves. That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.