Quotes About Wisdom

Looking back, she couldn't believe she'd been so naive, so blind. She

Danger lurks along the paths walked by our children and their parents. If they are to safely negotiate the journey with increasing strength and sensitivity and without suffering debilitating wounds, then wise, committed companions must join them on the way.

Biblical stories play an important role in the elementary child's search for answers.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

The more a man knows the more he forgives.

Dispatch business quickly, and keep out of long debates and heats… be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and let it be in the grace, which seasons all words. George Fox,

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

One of the awful secrets of seventeen is that it still has seven hiding inside it. Sometimes seven comes tumbling out, even when seventeen wants to be Grown-Up and proud. This is also one of the awful secrets of seventy.

Oh, September. My best girl. I shall tell you an awful, wonderful, unhappy, joyful secret: It is like that for everyone. One day you wake up and you are grown. And on the inside, you are no older than the last time you thought Wouldn't it be lovely to be all Grown-Up right this second?

One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them. Three: Books Operate Under Unstable Physicks so Turn out the Lights when You Lock Up.

Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door of death - but has not yet fallen. It is a world of contradictions: a time of harvest and plenty but also of cold and hardship. Here we dwell in the midst of life, but we know most keenly that all things must pass away and shrivel. Autumn turns the world from one thing into another. The year is seasoned and wise but not yet decrepit or senile.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

She's an old woman possessed of great powers--but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.

The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know--and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover.

What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays.