Quotes About Wisdom

Knowing is not enough. Loving is the best part of knowing. — Joseph Compaine —

These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children. —Titus 2:4

When speaking might cause pain, love chooses to remain silent. — Jeanette Levellie —

Always seek the wisdom of those who love you. They may have just the right word for your situation. — Jerry Hamilton —

There are valuable life lessons that only failure can teach your child.

An ancient sage once said, "A soft answer turns away anger.

Author Ambrose Bierce said, "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

One of the most empowering moments of my life came when I realized that life is a question and how we live it is our answer.

Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir

But then, the Holy Spirit came to me, and I was reminded of something Saint Augustine said: 'Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Well, he may be long in the tooth, but one doesn't get to be leader of such a nation if he's mentally confused or doddering in old age.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers.

Perhaps when I am grown I will not know anything. Perhaps that is the way it works, the way it is with growing. When you grow, you start to unlearn things.

I wish I had a dollar for every hour I've spent in the library, he always says. I have to agree- we'd probably never have to worry about money again.

I know that my life on boats has been about this: not the sailing or the sea so much as learning about self. And almost every boat I have had has taught me something.

You eat the gut berries, you throw up. Don't eat the gut berries.

But there's something really nice about spending time with a little kid. You learn so much.

You never beat the game...You go in, take what you need, get out. Never stay too long and never, never try to whip the game. Stay there too long and they figure you out, start chewing at the corners on you, know your betting. Then maybe two, three of them get together and whipsaw you.

The difference between being smart and being really smart is looking at things in a way no one would ever expect.