Quotes About Wisdom

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.

Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop.

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

Correct what you can; learn from what you can't.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

Whitefolks said he was a witch doctor, but they said that so they wouldn't have to say he was smart. A hunter's hunter that's what he was. Smart as they come. Taught me two lessons I lived by all my life. One was the secret of kindness from white people –they had to pity a thing before they could like it. The other--- oh well, I forgot it." Joe Trace

Don't let your mouth start nothing your ass can't stand.

I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the change was adjustment without improvement.

1. What have you learned that is true (and how do you know)? 2. What problem do you have?

What he might call cowardice other people called common sense.

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

Good is knowing when to stop.

My nature is a quiet one, anyway. As a child I was considered respectful; as a young woman I was called discreet. Later on I was thought to have the wisdom maturity brings.

You couldn't learn age, but adulthood was there for all.

And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.

Everything depends on knowing how much...Good is knowing when to stop.

Now I know why Baby Suggs pondered color her last years. She never had time to see, let alone enjoy it before.

they have the eyes of people who can tell what time it is by the colour of the sky... their eyes do not bite

Well, don't let your mouth start nothing that your ass can't stand. When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you. I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder.

L'amore non è mai migliore di chi ama. I malvagi amano con malvagità, i violenti con violenza, i deboli con debolezza e gli stupidi in modo stupido, ma l'amore di un uomo libero non è mai sicuro. on c'è dono per la persona amata. Solo chi ama possiede il suo dono d'amore. Chi è amato viene reciso, neutralizzato, congelato nello sguardo dell'occhio interiore di chi ama.

facts can exist without human intelligence, but truth cannot.