Quotes About Wisdom

His old riot of black hair was now a translucent scrim of white, but his blue eyes still threw sparks.

We start learning the minute we're born, Laura. And if we're wise, we don't stop until the Lord calls us home.

Trust the soul above all things, for it is made by the Divine hand and woven with threads of truth, eternity, and light.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke

Ignorance is not a capital crime. It is a correctable condition.

My mama told me from the time I was a little girl not to go chasin' after boys." She paused and gave him a wry smile. "I just wasn't very good at listenin'.

Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward?

History shares some secrets, keeps others.

History's a resource.

Laura Lippman

Who looks at a woman's elbows, you sick fuck?" "I'm just saying it's the one place that a woman can't hide her age. My wife told me. She lemons hers sometimes. Cuts a lemon in half, hollows it out, fills it with olive oil and kosher salt and sits at her vanity, arms up like a little bunny." Lenhardt demonstrated the pose. "I tell you, Kevin, it's like going to bed with a fucking tossed salad.

Laura Lippman

and a Dr. Brown's celery soda.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Life perfects us, if we let it.

The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

That's what spending time with the young can do -- it's the big payoff for all the pain. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

Use death as your advisor, and you'll start making better decisions about your life,

On a day like today, there's no friend like a book.

A secret to happiness . . . Being part of the flow of wisdom, And understanding that all things in nature have their own form of consciousness.

Una mujer como usted debe haber roto muchos corazones... - En el pasado, tal vez. A mi edad, el único corazón que uno rompe es el propio.

Mi séquito estuvo compuesto por diez sabios colmados de ciencia, los cuales permanecían callados , sabiendo lo que tanto se olvida, que el no saber es la única ciencia

Ah, the minutes twinkle in and out And in and out come and go One by one, none by none, What we know, what we don't know.

According to my mother, no book is only a book. A book can improve your mind or it can break it.