Quotes About Wisdom

Each arrow was fletched in feathers that once belonged to immortal birds so wise that if you asked them to tell you the meaning of life, they would have an answer, and it would be short, and easy to understand, and as true as tea.

IN LUDO VERITAS. In the Game Is Truth.

September waited. She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.

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.

You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That

They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.

As all reptiles know, the bigger the spectacles, the wiser the wearer, and the Scientiste wore the biggest pair ever built. But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals. So went my mother's patron, in a spectacular display of Science." "That's very sad," sighed September. "Terribly sad! But grief is wasted on the very roasted.

I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not me, I would not be able to advise you, and if I were unable to advise you, you'd do as you like, so you might as well do as you like and have done with it.

Mindannyian a hatalom szörny? hajtóm?vében élünk, amely csikorog, sípol és éget, és így senki sem mondja: a térképre rajzolt vonalak butaságok.

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Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Bless this family that I love and comfort them each day. As daytime turns to night-time please bring them peace, I pray. When morning comes tomorrow, may all their cares be small. Guide us with Your wisdom, Lord. Bless us one and all.

You can fool some of the people some of the time—but you'd best not be fooling yourself, the biggest fool of all.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." "It's

You can push all that past aside if you want to, but until you understand where people around here came from and why they think the way they do, you won't be able to help them get beyond it. You can't just whisk a magic wand and make the past disappear or rewrite it because you don't like it. You'll never change the present if you do that. You have to learn from what's gone on and work hard if you want to make the future better.

It was a combination of old magic and a woman's wisdom with God's herbs, and most of it is lost. People then didn't write their wisdom down. They relied on the seanachai to tell the story aloud

Wisdom was so easy to pass on--much harder to practice.

book of life, every page have two sides.'" "The

Don't go to the hardware store for bread.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.