Quotes About Wisdom

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit's strength lies in holding fast to the truth.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.

The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

Humour is the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life.

You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love.

The ignorance we're ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

The ability to know one's limitations, to recognize the bounds of one's own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

Whatever life lessons we can glean from having read, perhaps being middle of a book is what really counts as living.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

Someone started taking notes, Steve said, 'You don't need to takes notes. If it's important, you'll remember it'.

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.