Quotes About Wisdom

You can not fix a problem in the same sh*t that created it .

You need to screw up to learn. Experience is the best teacher.

As you grow old, most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

Everyone has freewill, but few know how to use it wisely.

The past is always there, it lives inside of you, but it's when you put it away and live your life, that you get to know who you are.

You have the ability to see beyond what gives you joy or gives you sorrow.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The great thing about getting older is, you realize there are no answers, just stories.

At moments of deep uncertainty, Remember what hurt you in the past, and never forget what it taught you. That letting go is a matter of self-worth.

There will be a few times in your life, when the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

We all do foolish things in life. But we would be more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

What the hell. "Strange as it maybe at the end of the day, I am wiser to know shit can't be that bad.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

I make mistakes like the next person. The only real mistake is the one from which I learned nothing.

Often times it's easier to do bad things out of emotions, but we have to educate our minds to do the right thing which is harder to do. Proper discernment and wise decision is needed which needs a little time to act.

Alas, what short-sighted improvident creatures we are, all of us; and how often does the evening cup of joy lead to sorrow in the morning!

As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.

The first half of life, at least for most of us, is essentially a giant, unavoidable mistake.

Where do you refuse to grow up, wait for certainty of wisdom before choosing, hope for solutions to emerge fully formed, expect rescue, or wait for a guru to make sense of it all for you?

Later—much later, if at all—we reluctantly come to recognize that those choices we made were reflective of our character, our limited field of vision, and our presumption that we knew enough to know enough.

Man has only his two feet to stand on, his own human trinity to see him through: Reason, Courage, and Grace. And the first plus the second equals the third.

David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision

for what we have most to share with them is not our learning or our techniques, but rather who we have become and what darkness we have faced in the world and in ourselves.

enough. Thus it is owned, possessed, directed by that which it does not know.