Quotes About Wisdom

She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

The story of the tree is written on every leaf.

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.

If you are in doubt about what's balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths.

Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.

Gie me a spark o' nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us but we've forgotten how to listen.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.