Quotes About Wisdom

We watch our technologies becoming more intelligent, and speculate imaginatively about their potential to become conscious. All the while, we have it in us to become wise.

Hope is an orientation, an insistence on wresting wisdom and joy from the endlessly fickle fabric of space and time.

I learned to be wary that summer of a pious approach to life that saw good intentions and righteous prayer as substitutes for planning and pragmatic action.

Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself.

Sometimes one wise voice that has been in the world for a while and evolved, lived the same human drama from a few different angles, can provide more nuance than any two-sided debate.

sometimes our hearts just need time to accept what are heads already know

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm a bleeping idiot.

God grant me the courage to date the men who aren't idiots. The serenity to accept the fact that many men are idiots. And the wisdom to know the difference

Adam loves me. I know he loves me. To think I thought it was a tree. A knothole. Some kind of hole, yes, but really, I am such an idiot. Almost forty, and pathetically naive.

I like my face. I have a few crow's-feet, sure. My skin's not as elastic as it used to be… I gained a lot of weight when I was pregnant, as one tends to do with three babies inside, and it shows. But this is the face of a woman who's been through a lot, a woman who has lost a lot and held on to a lot, too. This is the face my daughters love, the face they look to for comfort and unconditional love, for patience. For wisdom. For guidance.

Everyone makes mistakes. Its what you do after the mistake that matters

Einstein told me I was smart. Maybe I'd get a tattoo of those words.

Abram spoke long into the night. His stories took shape slowly and deliberately

Only experience, she had learned somewhere along the way, led to wisdom.

She wants me to cut through all the sweetness and light in my head," I said, "so I can see the truth." "Which is?" Tommy asked, not turning around. "That nothing is what it seems to be.

So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

You walk to toward the center (of the labyrinth), towards the source of that order, releasing the chaos of daily life, seeking wisdom and wholeness. On the outward journey you return to the world -- metaphorically -- with the insights gained within.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

I also wonder about gold fever, why it make some men crazy and others wise. Such as Sam, my father, and Captain clinkingbeard They suffered heartbreak and loss just as Jesse Blue had, but they didn't become thieves or liars. Why? I asked papa. What makes the difference? His eyes were gentle when he looked at me. "It seems that true character of often isn't revealed until a person is faced with temptation".

Weten is verschrikkelijk, maar niet weten is nog veel erger

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

I'm gay. I know things.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.