Quotes About Wisdom

Do not engage. Remove yourself from the emotional minefield.

No surprise you're in pain, no surprise you're dead. You're old. That's what is meant to happen. We don't care that you forget you're old. We know you're old.

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

Hindsight,' said her father. 'It's always just a fraction too late.

Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free?' (Her daughters shrieked when they heard that phrase.)

People thought that tragedy made you wise, that it automatically elevated you to a higher, more spiritual level, but it seemed to Rachel that just the opposite was true. Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn't give you any great knowledge or insight.

Hindsight, it's always just a fraction too late.

pain, no surprise you're dead. You're old. That's what is meant to happen. We don't care that you forget you're old. We know you're old. Rose thinks of that poem she used to like and is pleased with herself when she can remember the first few lines. Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Some elderly people look like they've always been old, but Connie looked like a young person who had aged a great deal.

All babies had that same wise look, as if they'd just come from another realm where they'd learned some beautiful truth they couldn't share.

People thought that tragedy made you wise, that it automatically elevated you to a higher, more spiritual level, but it seemed to Rachel that just the opposite was true. Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn't give you any great knowledge or insight. She didn't understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel,

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

He possessed a great deal of philosophy, or of common sense that looked like it.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.