Quotes About Wisdom

Sometimes life isn't what you thought it would be it's just what it is.

The least intelligent person carries the most epic message in their eyes.

I don't mind my age.

There is an intelligence at work in my body. I am in awe. I had, until then, been pretty certain my brain ran everything. Not so, said the wise labouring body. Not so.

Don't get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder's container idea: Notice everything, but don't buy into it. Hold it.

She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian.

For me, life and books are intertwined, and one is always reminding me of the other.

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations.

Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.

What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech.

A man's life is often builded on a proverb.

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [ Letter, November 1856 ]

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.

There is no difference between growing old and living.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. —Charlie Brown

Open your eyes, and trust your own unique way of receiving answers.

Follow your heart, trust your instincts and allow yourself to do what feels best. Above all, trust your wisdom within.

Making the decision to honor the wisdom of one's soul isn't always easy. It can bring into question our very sense of who we are. If we really listen to the truth bubbling up beneath the surface of our lives, things might change. We might have to face the fact that our inner wisdom and that which we have come to accept as true, safe and popular may be very different--a process that can be rather disconcerting, to say the least.

Set aside a specific time each day to meditate and tune into what your soul's wisdom has to share about the topic you are currently exploring. You can do this by simply connecting with your breath, softening your heart, and opening to whatever is revealed to you.

Trust what feels right to you, let go of the rest.

I couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't quite right. I now realize that was probably the first sign my soul wisdom--the voice of my inner, truest self--was trying to get my attention.