Quotes About Wisdom

You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.

i just want my girls to have babies. that's all. so they know what i know.

Read, listen, and learn constantly, but always sift what you learn through the strainer of your own personal beliefs and parenting philosophy.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

sound of Rafiki's

It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read.

But you can't very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask.

There is no knowledge like the bitter knowledge of old loves.

I think... I think sometimes that's how it is. Sometimes people have to go before you get stuff. Before you can really get it.

Maybe you and I have to learn how to live with what we saw. With what we know.

Tal vez tú y yo tenemos que aprender a vivir con lo que vimos. Con lo que sabemos.

I didn't understand most of what he was saying. I should have had to understand what he was saying. I was still so young. And I certainly should not have had to learn it this way!

The greatest misfortune in the world is to have more learning than common sense.

This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

But we're both old enough to know things now, and that's good." "What things?" "When to shut up, mainly.

one of those things about getting older was knowing that so many moments weren't just moments, they were gifts.

How did you ever know? You never knew anything, and anyone who thought they knew anything - well, they were in for a great big surprise.

She felt she had figured something out too late, and that must be the way of life, to get something figured out when it was too late.

Everyone thinks they know everything, and no one knows a damn thing.

People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

They say that's what happens as you get older. You think about the things of your youth.

guess many of us have regrets, he wrote, but my regrets seem to grow as I get older.

Her grandmother said, "Don't come back. Don't get married. Don't have children. All those things will bring you heartache

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far. The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.