Quotes About Wisdom

When we choose things that are evil and stupid, then we pay the cost of lost opportunities to do something good—something wise and unselfish.

I'm always more at home with those who are seeking answers than with those who say they have them.

I suggested we name one of the children Silence," said Dion, "a greatly underrated virtue.

Know thy enemy," a quote he lifted from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Jesus said the truth will set us free. What he didn't mention was how nothing is quite as elusive as getting to that truth.

Mark Twain's words: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

It almost feels like I've suffered in order to be able to see what I otherwise wouldn't.

If she's stupid enough to leave, then you have to be smart enough to let her go.

Cicero said 'So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.'

Satchell Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

The world was amoral. To be idealistic was to ask to be blindsided,

Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam,

Watkins, S.B.,

If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

mature great-nephew.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

If there was a lesson to be taken from history, it was that men lived but never learned from

We know that there are no self-evident truths.