Quotes About Wisdom

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

The unattended mind lives with unending wants, while the awakened mind understands that its own watchfulness is the fullness it seeks.

Quiconque est authentiquement heureux ou sage le demeure dans chaque situation. Il apporte cette qualité avec lui partout où il va. La sagesse et le contentement font partie de sa nature.

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When you fall, you must remember to let go of the rope!" They both laughed out loud at this lighthearted lesson because the need to let go was so obvious. I remember this incident well because of the long-lasting impression it formed in me.

With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious mind until one day some equally random stimulus sparks a connection, and you find that you've combined different items of memory and perception into a completely new insight.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn't that supposed to take time?" Guidanio doesn't smile. "Wisdom does," he says. "People can be clever at any age.

It was too bitter a truth even for irony.

We live among mysteries. Love is one, there are others. We must not imagine we understand all there is to know about the world.

And it is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

He didn't think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.

We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck

He waited for his cup to be filled, then added softly, "We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects that folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.

The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.

Sometimes the one life we are allowed is enough.

You would not have believed," he said. "You would always have doubted. We needed to grow older, you and I, for me to say this and you to hear it.

Watching, letting the growth of wisdom guide him into silence

The world was full of things one needed to know to survive; he didn't have the time to fill his brain with the useless chaff of a patently silly culture.

Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

We think olden times were simple because we know how grandpa's problems were solved, and any problem is simple when you can look up the answer in the back of the book.

you were told the accumulated wisdom of generations who had suffered to acquire their knowledge, and you simply did not believe it. Those difficult rules might be right for other people, but as for yourself, you were going to get what you wanted. You were the center of your own universe and intended to have supremacy in it