Quotes About Wisdom

Ninety percent of everything we know has been passed along through story.

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

Well, what do you think I should do?" "Button raised a kindly brow. "Dow you want me to tell you if I think you should be wise, or unwise?" "Well... yes." Button smiled sadly. "But which is which?

How strange knowledge was. Once something was known, it could not be unknown, no matter how one might wish.

Life is a matter of exchanges. Youth for age, ignorance for knowledge. Endless exchanges.

Librarians, of all people, understood the value of knowing, even if that information could not yet be used.

Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity. They might never come close, but they could approach a point where, for all intents and purposes, she knew all that she needed to know.

Each year they learn the same thing, just in bigger words.

Los dos tenían esa sabiduría libresca que oculta una sorprendente ingenuidad.

She's twenty-three, he thinks; she knows nothing about life, wasted or otherwise.

education costs money. but then so does ignorance.

What would she have done if she'd been in that situation? Mrs. Richardson would ask herself this question over and over, before Michael's call and for weeks—and months—after. Each time, faced with this impossible choice, she came to the same conclusion. I would never have let myself get into that situation, she told herself. I would have made better choices along the way.

Pearl was smarter than any of them and yet she seemed comfortable with everything she didn't know: she lingered comfortably in the gray spaces.

Man can't live by truth alone, you know, and children even less so.

We are, like our beloved garden greens, sturdy, strong, and best when tested by the elements and fully seasoned.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Celya Bowers

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