Quotes About Wisdom

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

Jim Elliot summarized it well: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

statement. Here

One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong.

Belief, as the sagacious Robert Anton Wilson once remarked, "is the death of intelligence".

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

Our beliefs have no time to age.

Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. An I'm aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.

Maturity is graduating from the belief that the world misunderstands you to the awareness that you misunderstand the world.

Maybe that's all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don't know anything.

Remember that what you do not yet know is more important than what you already know.—Jordan Peterson

LIVING FROM THE ANSWER

The pioneering anthropologist Louis Leakey once stated, "Without an understanding of who we are, we cannot truly advance.

When the facts become clear, our choices become obvious.

the bridge of experience

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean. — Rumi

battle that rages inside every person.' 'The two wolves.' 'That's right. One wolf is anger and fear and paranoia and cruelty. The other is kindness, humility, compassion, serenity. And the boy asks his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?" You remember the answer?' ' "The one you feed." ' 'That's right.

Evan sits on the floor, hard; the collective wisdom of four cultures distilled into a single ass kicking.

The things you learn growing up in and out of prison, Allander thought. A practical education.

Jack had taught him this along with so much else. How to find peace. How to embody stillness. How to punch an eskrima dagger between the fourth and fifth ribs, angling up at the heart.

the three monkeys of lore;

Trust and stupidity are close friends. Of course, no one really knows that until it's too late.

For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and a host of readers always offers the riches of stories, that we may be less deprived and disconsolate, and more human and humane; perhaps wiser, and kinder to ourselves and our brothers and other strangers.