Quotes About Wisdom

Elsa knew that a library card—a thing they'd taken for granted all of their lives—meant there was still a future.

That was the first time her grandfather had leaned down and whispered, Be brave, into her ear. And then, Or pretend to be. It's all the same.

Young has nothing to do with love. A woman can be a girl and still know her own heart.

At my age, I should not be afraid of anything—certainly not my own past.

Fear is smart until…" He headed for the door, paused as he reached for the knob. "Until what?" He looked back at her. "Until you realize you're afraid of the wrong thing.

The library. Books held the answer to every question.

Es wäre lächerliche und ungerechtfertigte Selbstüberhebung, wenn wir annehmen wollten, wir seien energischer oder intelligenter als das Altertum - unser Wissensstoff hat zugenommen, nicht aber die Intelligenz. Darum sind wir neuen Ideen gegenüber gerade so borniert und unfähig wie die Menschen in den dunklesten Zeiten des Altertums. An Wissen sind wir reich geworden, nicht aber an Weisheit.

We analyse dreams to help us with problems because, as Jung says, "the problem is much greater than I, and it is wise to hold fast to the words the dream gives, because one cannot expect to be wiser than nature".

The soul needs your recklessness, not your wisdom.

I am the true medicine [says Wisdom], correcting and transmuting that which is no longer into that which it was before its corruption, and that which is not into that which it ought to be." * (Ibid., p. 459).

truth is the supreme virtue and an impregnable stronghold" * (p. 458).

Every age has had its darkness and its dangers. The task of the Christian is not to whine about the moment in which he or she lives but to understand its problems and respond appropriately to them.

I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in the history.

The library is the temple of learning and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.