Quotes About Wisdom

If you don't furnish your brain with what everyone knows, then it will furnish itself with what no one else knows!

the two of them prayed to Jesus that they might learn their lessons sooner rather than later, and that they would be gentle lessons rather than hard lessons.

Old Eileen leaned forward in her chair, thrusting her face closer to the child who had been gradually approaching her. Where is the centre of the world? she abruptly demanded. Esther stood silently in front of her, holding onto a book she had forgotten to put on a table. She did not know the answer to the riddle. The place where you stand, Old Eileen said. The place where you stand is the centre of the world.

Now you must close your eyes. Yes, that is it. Selinda, you, too. Good. Good. Bring in the dark that I may teach you to breathe. For it is breath that is behind words. And words that are the shapers of knowledge. And knowledge that is the base of understanding. And understanding, the link between sister and sister." And

Not to know is bad, but not to wish to know is worse.

I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of saying, Let your characters grow. Up. And good stories for adults are about the Holding of Wisdom. Another way of saying, Recognize you are grown up.

It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world…

to eat away that hope. "Belief," Mama often said, "is the first thing to come, and the last thing to go." "Belief," Papa always countered, "is for children.

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.

A book? he asked. Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading?

There's a difference between having maturity and being mature. I'm not ready to be mature. I don't want to see the AARP magazine in my mailbox.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is an illusion, does not act as if it is real, and so he escapes suffering." The

Oscar Wilde said it's never the question that's indiscreet, only the answers.

I am just a simple monk. The sun shines on the just and unjust alike. If the sun does not judge, then who am I to do so?

It's my style. And don't call me Cookie." Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me. At least I rarely made the same mistake twice …

Grass don't grow on a busy street," Grandma said. "Better to be smart than to have hair.

She's a silly old lady,' my mother said. 'You could be a good Christian and turn the other cheek.' 'I'm a plenty good Christian,' Grandma said, 'but I got it on good authority that God wants me to get Bella for Him.

I'll go first," Grandma said, taking the Maglite and forging ahead. "I'm already too old to die young.

photograph?" "Information

There was no expression to his face. He looked like he'd seen it all and didn't think much of it.

You sound like your mother." "Sometimes she's right." Truth is, she was almost always right. And my life would probably be improved if I listened to her more often.

It is written by the Sage that you, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.