Quotes About Wisdom

The best stories have many meanings; their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.

We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better.

What is the most valuable thing on earth? It's not the Hope Diamond, or the National Treasury. It's not a Picasso collection, or the Microsoft fortune. It is the wisdom of God, seen in the pages of your Bible. You've had access to it all along.

Solomon's wisdom—flowing from the throne of God—brought the nation peace and prosperity like it had never known before. The forty years when Solomon sat as king were the best years in Israel's history. All because he asked God for wisdom and followed it.

Hurt me once, shame on you; hurt me twice, shame on me.

Love makes us stupid, sometimes.

If answers are the destination, questions are the oars.

I don't know anything about science.

The stories we can tell each other have no beginning and ending. They

Those who have reached the seventh incarnation carry with them all that was learnt, suffered and experienced in the previous six. Life for them is a perpetual and unsatisfying deja vu. Nothing is new, truly interesting, truly vital. Everything has done before, even before it begins. Such a soul is said to live a 'Saturday Life

At your happiest and best, you're a free spirit, a cheerful wanderer, an honest and intelligent companion, and a philosopher who likes to ponder the big questions — preferably with a few pals and a plentiful supply of snacks. You see life as an ongoing quest for experience and wisdom, not as a search for security.

You're the person you are today because of everything that has happened to you.

Wake up Smarter. Sleep With a Librarian.

aren't we lucky that the terrible choices we made when we were young don't have to define us for the rest of our lives?

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter.

Me río de mí mismo cuando soy ese infeliz que se mira el ombligo y cree saber mucho de la vida.

El destino es una palabra enorme que desprecié durante mis años de juventud; en cambio, en mis años maduros, la invoco a menudo, he entendido que el destino es el lugar donde está ocurriendo la vida.

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

Con dizir flama non se quema la boca (refrán sefardí)

three degrees in the intelligence of mankind. To the first belong those who understand things for themselves by virtue of their own natural endowments; to the second those who have at least the wit to discern what others understand; and to the third those who neither understand things for themselves nor yet through the demonstrations which others afford them.

Take your time, now,' said Mr. Blood. 'I never knew speed made by overhaste.

You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.

we are all too prone to judge—upon insufficient knowledge.

It is not human to be wise," said Blood. "It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.