Quotes About Wisdom

nothing has ever happened to Miss Marple. Everything happens around her, and this is the point: she has become wise through observation, not through experience.

The only problem with being Light is you have no mentor to explain it all. You discover the rules by breaking them.

No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got.

Sometimes men are still boys, only wearing bigger clothes, until God takes them by the suspenders and gives them a good shake.

Nothing is more practical than poetry," he says with a quizzical smile. "It teaches us how to be human.

The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up... A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time... Life is about experiencing opposites isn't it?

Can something be a secret if everyone in the whole world knows it?

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.

But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.

It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge.

Usually the hard stuff you're forced to do makes you learn a lot.

Everyone know that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school. Seriously, everyone knows it. You never hear someone say, "Oh, wow, you're seventeen and you really like him? That's great, you should do whatever it takes to get him, even if it means wrecking your whole like.

People make mistakes.

You don't know what you're talking about," he says. "And you shouldn't talk about things you know nothing about.

Everyone knows that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school.

YOU CAN MISS A LOT IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE {RULE 52}.

I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.

Young? Yes. He probably had wrenches older than she was.

I am not thrilled by the idea that I am entering a vague in-between, after the intensity of conversion and before the calm wisdom of cronehood.

Augustine wrote that God sometimes does not give us what we ask in prayer. "Of His bounty, the Lord often grants not what we seek, so as to bestow something preferable.

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind .