Quotes About Wisdom

In the journey to become whole, a woman will be confronted with various forms of these stages [of personal evolution]. In doing the hard work that is required, she learns important lessons about herself and increases her capacity to see the meaning of her actions. She is then able to bring more experience, wisdom, and skill to the next challenge she must face.

Like a good academic, I thought books were for answers.

That the boy in short trousers was already the man they'd known, the man who had always got the picture, had always pulled the story from the jaws of defeat.

What we see in the lives of animals are lessons we've learned from the world.

How will I know I've grown up? When I've started using words I didn't really know the meaning of. I said I did that already and she said yes but I worried about it and grown-ups didn't.

She retained the opinions of trees: one of them being that it was best not to have anything to do with human folk. "Firstly, they cut us down," Rowan said. "Secondly they're all insane, though I suppose they can't help that, being rooted in water instead of earth.

Easy to see the solution when you're not in the story, isn't it.

Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.

She thought it something of a mercy for the gullible to die young, as being too often mistaken breaks the spirit.

I know too much to go back and pretend.

It would seem that God had merely asked me to give Him my mind, my training, the ability that He has given me; to serve Him unquestioningly; and to leave with Him the consequences....How wonderful God is, and how foolish we are to argue with Him and not to trust Him wholly in every situation as we seek to serve Him!

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Yet what is it except a game you play in which identity can be denied? You are as God created you. All else but this one thing is folly to believe. In this one thought is everything set free. In this one truth are all illusions gone.

2 Rien de réel ne peut être menacé. 3 Rien d'irréel n'existe.

The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium.

4 Al liberar a tu mente de la prisión de tus ilusiones restauran la cordura en ti.

The Course asks us to read its words slowly and carefully, thinking about what they mean. It asks us to take them personally and treat them as practical, as more than an intellectual game. If we will do this with the Text, we will experience our old worldview being slowly dismantled and a new worldview arising in its place.