Quotes About Wisdom

If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion, don't go lookin' in the donkey corral.

It is important not only to read God's Word but to interpret God's world in the light of the Word.

Sometimes you have to lose a lot of Q-tips before you realize you have a hole in your head. Colors Insulting To Nature

There's almost always a calmer and ultimately more efficient way to do something if you just stop and think about it.

Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.

A vida e curta demais para cometer o mesmo erro duas vezes

Even Austen's famous first sentence has an echo in one of Burney's: "[It is] received wisdom among matchmakers, that a young lady without fortune has a less and less chance of getting off upon every public appearance."44

I'm forty-two years old—which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.

The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

I measure my life out in books. You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

Since the dawn of humanity, birds have inspired infinite beauty, happiness and wisdom. They're one of our strongest connections to our natural home and so to life and to reality itself.

Shakespeare say? Discretion is the better part of valor?

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

Even though this world is narrow, it is wide... to those who understand. This world isn't the only one.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

You can't deceive me with a dream.

Whether you understand it or don't understand . . . whether you accept it or not . . . what is, is. That's all there is to it.

Perhaps she had learned already those lessons in life that make smiling difficult.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

It is not enough to know what is written; we also need to grasp the significance of the Word.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...

The best physician is also a philosopher

Those who blindly trust cannot be enlightened.