Quotes About Wisdom

In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools.

Sì, pensavo io, la sua vita è di quelle che bisogna vivere due volte prima di poter dire che è stata veramente vissuta. Si può ripetere da capo un'arietta, ma non una composizione intera, una sinfonia e neanche una tragedia in cinque atti. Se la si ripete, vuol dire che non è andata come doveva.

Take the advice I sometimes have to give to myself: Don't say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off.

Don't say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off.

Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips. (Psalm 141:3)

God's Word is both powerful and practical.

Even a fool when he holds his peace is considered wise; when he closes his lips he is esteemed a man of understanding" (Proverbs 17:28). Yes, sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all. We

there is a direct correlation between our prayer life and our conversations. Perhaps if we spent more time and energy on our prayer life, we would use our tongues more wisely.

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning. PROVERBS 10:12 – 13

we are all wont to make mistakes, but if we learn from each trick, each error, and refuse to allow it to happen again, then the experience is not a loss, but a lifelong gain. Our pride may sting for the moment, but our future will be the better for it.

Gregor, have you ever been in love? No, I've never been that foolish.

Ah, lassies, be sure ye make good decisions, firm and fast. Those who don't know what they want get what they deserve. OLD WOMAN NORA OF LOCH LOMOND TO HER THREE WEE GRANDDAUGHTERS ONE COLD NIGHT

If there's one thing you taught me, it's to never trust an answer that's actually another question.

I don't need a hero. I was blessed with a large amount of common sense, which is of infinitely more use than a man.

Well, it is a good thing he died young. Most men don't have the good sense to know when to quit this earth. At least your husband didn't drag on and on like some do.

Life was a hard teacher, but a thorough one.

People who really live have a little wear and tear. But that's good. It's what makes us interesting.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep.

What have you learned? my father asked, and I didn't have the words then, but, in retrospect, the lesson seemed to be that what you accomplish will never matter so much as where you fail.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy.

La vida no es siempre logica

I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree--aren't you? --Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila

Humans have a wonderful saying for everything and then proceed to ignore the wisdom in all of them.