Quotes About Wisdom

What kind of trees are those? I asked. Heartwood, my father said. They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

Qui-Gon was the key to everything.

Well, could even a Jedi know the future?

He might be asleep, but even asleep he looked like he knew more than most guys awake

There's an African proverb that advises, "Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

She learned as she led, and led as she learned.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.

2.49) O Arjuna, action is very much inferior to the yoga of the intellect (buddhiyoga). Seek refuge in the intellect! Wretched are they who are motivated by results.

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.

This is what happens when a boy becomes a man. You get stupider.

You've got to be strong to get old.

for one thing you learns when you is a girl is that most women's hearts is full of secrets.

I been around the sun one hundred four whole times and nobody's explained nothing to me.

was. The constant learning and

Well, I reckon to really understand the world, you got to die at least once.

How old are you? Thirty six. Prime of life. Woman's never better. Has some sense to go along with her beauty, and you always were a beauty, Charlotte.

The world's theology The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view . . . that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22

It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.

Childhood is over when you know you're gonna die.

If your going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

Angel: What's sauerkraut? Max: You don't want it. Trust me.

I never miss a good chance to shut up