Quotes About Wisdom

I have fallen behind time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead confuses me.

But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

May you hear the voice of wisdom. Listening, may you act with trust.

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.

But the healing place is with in you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted to others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is within you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

As Hera crowned the youngest winner, the girl addressed the crowd: I am the new moon, swelling with magic, pure in my maidenhood, ever growing stronger. The second winner spoke: I am the full moon, complete in my powers, making people with my rhythms, bathing them in light. The third said: I am the waning moon, easing into peace, knowing all that went before, I am the wise one.

Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed.

Prudence and insight often conceal a tepid, weak heart.

Life in battle is like a roll of toilet paper....the more you use it, the less you have left.

who feared God, but not death … who thought none below him but the base and unjust, none above him but the wise and virtuous'.

A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

I have nothing against old people. I want to be one myself one day.

You think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.

Superstition is the reservoir of all truths.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Be charming, and shut up!

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

If you're smart, you keep happiness to yourself.

Experience and disappointments had made us methodical.

As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.