Quotes About Wisdom

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

No one is satisfied with his fortune,and everyone is satisfied with his wit.

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A snatch of Nietzsche came to him

Never let them see your first reaction. Don't let them know what you think until you want them to know what you think.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing,'" I quoted. "Socrates." Mary Catherine said, "You were already proving your point. You didn't have to back it up with a quote.

Life experience?" I repeated tightly. "Big picture? I've had more life experience in fourteen years than you've had in — what are you, like, a hundred?

When the store emptied, Frank gasped. "Goodness! You kids have to stop eating! If you're not careful, you're going to turn into grown-ups. We don't want that, do we?

Why should you expect everything to work out successful? You're old enough to know better.

The Indians, they don't reveal nothin less they have a reason behind it. They believe a feller that shares, gives away some of his power.

By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

if the idea comes to you that

experience is the evidence

Tiene el presentimiento de cuál será el próximo paso. Siempre. La única ocasión en que esto no ocurre es cuando usted tiene en mente un problema equivocado, el que no corresponde.

On Lincoln: A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

En general, quienes no tienen nada que decir invierten el mayor tiempo posible en no decir nada.

Mr. Lincoln's faith in God was qualified by a very well-founded distrust of the wisdom of man.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.