Quotes About Wisdom

Seseorang yang menjadi gurumu harus dihormati, bahkan lebih daripada orang tuamu sendiri.

Aku tidak mempunyai sesuatu yang banyak, tetapi juga tidak membutuhkan yang banyak.

Time has a way of putting things in perspective, of assigning meaning.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

I'm not Lois Lane and you are neither Superman nor Clark Kent," she fired back. "It's crazy for you to go anywhere in this condition, and if you had the sense God gave a rock, you'd stay put." Gabe stopped in his tracks. "Did you just compare me to a rock?" She snorted. "I have the utmost respect for rocks. They're hard, they're heavy. They make good paperweights.

How many of us are the same as we were at seventeen? Or even at twenty-five? We learn, we grow, and hopefully become better and wiser women. That's not something to regret. It's something to celebrate.

Gut reaction is not always God's path. What feels right at the moment has nearly led me down some wrong avenues.

Only bad shepherds use entrances other than the door. Didn't your mother teach you anything?" "Yes, she did. That you're a troublemaker.

Dans la stupidité il est un sérieux qui, mieux orienté, pourrait multiplier la somme des chefs-d'oeuvre.

We beginnen pas werkelijk te leven aan het einde van de filosofie, op haar ruïne, wanneer we haar verschrikkelijke onbenulligheid hebben begrepen, en begrepen hebben dat het nutteloos was toevlucht tot haar te nemen, dat zij geen enkele hulp biedt.

I was ungrateful to Providence by not being happy; and, yet, does happiness always result from the gifts of intelligence? I tend to believe the contrary: one must pay for the gift of knowledge by wishing not to know...

You don't ever have to say anything,' he says. 'Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.

Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores.

Where does thinking get us?' she said. 'All thinking does is bring you down.

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.

He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindnesses, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she had said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.

She says what she has to say, and no more. May there be many like her,

The years don't slow down any as they pass.

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing (page 64)

Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,' he says. 'Do you know what the women have a gift for?' 'What?' 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Eat it, smoke it, stay up all night for it because the memories of the damage you wreak upon your body when you are young will sustain your spirit when you are old.