Quotes About Wisdom

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.

Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

One of the great things about a leaf," he said to her, "is that it reminds you to live as well as you can for as long as you can, until it's finally time to let go and allow yourself to drift away with grace.

God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry.

You need to learn patience, you grasshopper

Guilt, in other words, isn't always wasted. It can keep us from making the same mistake twice.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

Experience was the most painful of teachers.

the grass isn't always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered

Here's what else I've learned: Age doesn't guarantee wisdom, any more than age guarantees intelligence.

We sit and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence.

One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you.

But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and

I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I"ve never removed my ring. In all these years I"ve never felt the desire to do so.

I'm not unintelligent, mind you. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits. Here's

For with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers.

I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.

you can learn from your past but you can't change it

Intelligent? Kind?

I know that's not a popular notion—don't we frequently regard our elders as wise partially because they're gray and wrinkled?—but lately I've come to believe that some people are born with the capacity to become wise while others aren't, and in some people, wisdom seems to be evident even at a young age. My

People talk about truth like it's the solution to all of life's problems. I've been around long enough to know that isn't the case, and that sometimes truth can do more harm than good.

Maybe the older people get, the more important the past becomes? Because there's less future ahead?