Quotes About Wisdom

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love, you know?

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference. Viveca comes downstairs first and heads into the

Prophet. Kahlil Gibran.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

Look back on the past but don't stare

Life's absurd. Live authentically. Stop whining. Bam! I got into it.

Being in your mid-thirties brought benefits, I reminded myself. You began to appreciate tidiness, smallness, things in their place.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest

The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything.

What will be will be well — for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.

The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

La hojita más pequeña de hierba nos enseña que la muerte no existe; que si alguna vez existió, fue sólo para producir la vida.

Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young

I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can. -from As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life

All truths wait in all things

Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

I swear I see what is better than to tell the best, It is always to leave the best untold. -from A Song of the Rolling Earth