Quotes About Wisdom

Please. I learned far too late that life is simply about being good and decent to others. It's as plain as that. But first, you must be good and decent to yourself. Find your own road. Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.

And the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

When you're young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past." She turned to stare out the window. After a long pause, she spoke again, her voice quivering in a way Liv had never heard before. "And the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

is present wherever love can be found, her mother used to say.

My mistake wasn't in letting the marriage end; it was in fooling myself into believing that marrying him was a good idea in the first place.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

Ask, 'What's the meaning in this crisis? What's it trying to teach?' . . . Hard times can be gifts. They can force us to change and get us where we're meant to be.

But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.

We always teach best what we most need to learn.

He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

Looking for a teacher? Go get one. I'll wait. Go. I'll tell them what I did. Go get one. Go.

He had kept Bihzad illiterate, so that he would discover his own secrets before he discovered the secrets in books, before words and numbers spoilt his love for glowing images.

The singing bird lives in a cage. The owl roams free

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Sixteen hundred years ago Saint Augustine instructed, basically, Don't be stupid. "Shall we say, then," he wrote about Genesis, "there was such a sense of hearing in that formless and shapeless creation, whatever it was, to which God thus uttered a sound when He said, 'Let there be light'? Let such absurdities have no place in our thoughts.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.

Experience alone does not create knowledge

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

Der Vorteil der Klugheit besteht darin, daß man sich dumm stellen kann. Das Gegenteil ist schon schwieriger.