Quotes About Wisdom

I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

Honestly, I wish I could stay. For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

If it can be known, I want to know it.

It's not the stronger arm that prevails, but the stronger mind.

Do not bring violence to the sword. Do not bring heartbreak or anger or passion. You hold in your hand the steel of rationality.

Leading her to Truth, at the risk of your own heart and reputation, is love.

Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either." "Then you're doing it wrong.

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Part of getting over pain and hurt doesn't always mean we have to talk about it. Sometimes it is wiser to keep our thoughts to ourselves. We forget how powerful words can be.

Please don't joke and bleed at the same time.

You said you thought the first guy you fell for would be the one.That's what you've been searching for.Like you think you'll meet him and a whole chorus of angels will sing and you'lle know he's it! But it doesn't always work like that.Actually, i don't think it ever works like that.Usually you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you stop getting warts.

The thing I'd learned about older people was that they really no longer cared about impressing others. It made it difficult to bait them or to get your way with them.

Just following my mom's advice." "No one follows their mom's advice.

And thank you for not laughing at me. People tend to disregard us old ladies—they think we're only good for sewing robes and making hot chocolate, that we're crazy since we can no longer bear children. But we're smarter than everyone because we don't have distractions anymore. No kids. No husbands for many of us. We always knew the evil that men did, and we still do. Just now, no one believes us.

Crazy people only lose their cunning last, if they ever lose it.

Save your freedom for a rainy day," someone had written on the bathroom wall at Rudy's Bar in SoHo,

To show you the uselessness of the truth," he said.

Lonzi said the only thing worth loving was what was to come, and since what was to come was unforeseeable---only a cretin or a liar would try to predict the future---the future had to be lived now, in the now, as intensity.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.