Quotes About Wisdom

You've made a wise choice, lad...I won't insult your intelligence with the word 'trust'.

Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. —Proverbs 3:31

I learn things late—and only the hard way.

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

I have passed days thinking of these matters, out in the silent woods, and I have come to the opinion, boy, that as Providence rules all things, no gift is bestowed without some wise and reasonable end.

The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!

every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head.

When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their words shouldn't be feathers, so light that a wind which does not ruffle the water can blow them away.

Very few men attain enough of human knowledge to be fully aware how much remains to be learned, and of that which they never can hope to acquire.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king. --Richard II

Life is sweet, even to the aged; and, for that matter, I've known some that seemed to set much store by it when it got to be of the least value.

If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.

Así, nosotros tenemos siempre los ojos vueltos hacia el sol que surge y no hacia el que se esconde y que besa vuestros lagos de aguas dulces donde un mohícano moriría.

Che diritto hanno i cristiani bianchi di vantarsi del loro sapere, mentre un indiano è in grado di leggere una lingua che sarebbe troppo oscura per il più saggio di loro?

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

ways of prayer often call forth a kind of knowing that passes beyond clear ideas and the ordinary way of thinking.

the wisdom dimensions of the healing path of our unfolding lives through time can be best understood as the ways we are quickened from within, in often unexpected ways, by deepening intimations of what we have perhaps always known, hidden with Christ in God from before the origins of universe.

The emperor is naked! The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.

if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

They say confront the difficult while it is easy, accomplish the great one step at a time. They say let things come and let things go and live without possession and live without expectation.