Quotes About Wisdom

The minds of some human beings are as moles, grubbing in the earth for worms. They have no eyes to see God's sky with the stars in it.

The worst and best are both inclinedTo snap like vixens at the truth;But, O, beware the middle mindThat purrs and never shows a tooth!

Investigations, meditations, careers, relationships were much the same, he mused. They failed because no one thought to ask the right question.

Sometimes, Shan's father had told him, people can live eighty and ninety years and only briefly, once or twice at most, glimpse the true things of life, the things that are the essence of the planet and of mankind. Sometimes people died without ever seeing a true thing. But, he had assured Shan, you can always find true things if you just know where to look.

The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan

What is the way of human life, the student asked. An open-eyed man falling down a well, the master replied.

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.

There's wisdom in applying duct tape to our mouths in suffering seasons. In the raw reality of pain, we do well to sit in silence. But it can also be dangerous to be quiet for too long.

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador

The more you learn, the harder the lessons get.

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

There is no point in being annoyed with anyone — the way they enlarge one's understanding more than compensates for the irritation and inconvenience they cause.

I never look back, except to find out about mistakes… I only see danger in thinking back about things you are proud of.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

Dieser letzte Satz war einer, von dem man sich vorstellen kann, daß Randall Jarrell ihn ausschnitt und als Schutz gegen die Unzahl der ungebildeten Alleswisser dieser Welt in seine Brieftasche steckte.

The truth is that life in the end--even a long life, especially a long life--amounts to a handful of a very few things. The longer you live, the shorter the story.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

An expert is not someone that gives you the right answer, it is someone that asks you the right question