Quotes About Wisdom

every blessing ignored becomes a curse

we two have to live with our mistakes

Why should I listen to my heart ? Because you will never again be able to keep it quite . Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you .

What is learning: accumulating knowledge? Or transforming our lives?

Words are life set down on paper.

Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.

The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop seeking.

Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the most important lesson we can learn is how to love. How to love better.

I'm off in search of adventure,even though i am sixty fve and fully aware of all the limitations that age can bring....

We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.

I, too, get scared, but it's at such moments that I discover a wisdom that is beyond me, and I go forward.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary;

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

Só conseguimos ser generosos connosco nas poucas vezes que precisamos de ser severos.

Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat.Forget about yourself for awhile and understand that in that light lies wisdom and in that heat lies compassion.

I'm not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.

You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

Omul prost se teme de cel deÈ™tept È™i îl ur??te. Oricât de bun ar fi cel deÈ™tept, trebuie s? priceap? c? asta nu va cuceri afecÈ›iunea unuia cu mai puÈ›in? minte decât el.

If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?

I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the whole human race, and to read no books is to deprive the self of ready access to wisdom.

I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.