Quotes About Wisdom

Eu não sabia o que estava a perder', disse Harvey. 'Ah...', disse Hood, suavemente 'mas não é sempre assim que as coisas se passam? Há coisas que nos deslizam pelos dedos e só quando se vão embora é que nos arrependemos. Mas aquilo que se vai embora não volta, Harvey Swick!

But he'd brought new wisdom from the high places. He knew now that things forgotten might be recalled; things lost, found again.

Discretion's the better part of valor

es mejor estar preparados para lo peor y es de sabios aprender a caminar antes de perder el aliento.

There is a difference, he said, between the wise man who gives up because the task is beyond him, and the coward who does not even consider trying. You are brave, but bravery is not enough.

With Floyd we had three hundred and ninety-eight years between us. All that bitter experience, he said, and not one of us wise.

Some die too soon. Most live too long.

The winds mourn and whine was wiser than any psalm, prayer, or profession of love he'd ever heard. But

A book is dead until you read it.

but as his years advanced Lewis had seen less and less purpose in distinguishing between fact and fiction.

the spirit has its homeland, which is the realm of the meaning of things. Saint-Exupéry The Wisdom of the Sands

They knew a lot, the dead. How many times had she said to Harry they were the world's greatest untapped resource? It was true. All they'd seen, all they'd suffered, all they'd triumphed over – lost to a world in need of wisdom.

You guys are of the belief that everything worth knowing is already on the Internet. There is ten times more information in libraries than on the Web. Probably a thousand times. You two go way beyond Google searches

Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal. Pitt

The council works for the best interest of the whole. Decisions from past councils are weighed to carefully consider the effect of any new proposal, following the self-governing tenets of the Cherokee Indian tribe in eastern America, which made no decision until the effects of that decision were considered for seven generations into the future. The Gathering itself is a participatory workshop in self-government.

Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that how morals come, unbidden, in the course of events, when you least expect them?

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Your soul knows that you are right where you need to be to have the experiences you need. Trust it.

The evidence of paranormal research shows that there is a part of our being that knows far more than the conscious mind. And the evidence of mystics through the ages suggests that there is a part of our being that knows even greater secrets than this.

the Buddhist scripture expresses it: Those who refuse to discriminate might as well be dead

Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.

At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low.

Cora adored the old almanacs for containing the entire world.