Quotes About Wisdom

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

As my grandmother used to say: You're such a brain, you can worry more in one minute than other people can in a whole year.

What is that admonition about not attempting to teach a pig to sing? It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Sagacity did not magically arrive with age. As his family grew, so did his affections. The deeper he loved, the more easily he was injured. His heart had not become reinforced. It had softened--and ripened. It was a larger target and far more easily rent.

It was said that a man does not look behind a door unless he has once stood there.

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

Because we cannot be skilled at thinking unless we are skilled at questioning, we strive for a state of mind in which essential questions become second nature. They are the keys to productive thinking, deep learning, and effective living.

People with intellectual humility (and they are rare) understand that there is far more that they will never know than they will ever know. They continually seek to learn more, to develop their intellectual abilities and expand their knowledge base, always with a healthy awareness of the limits of their knowledge.

Nothing you think at twenty-five is so.

It seems to me that life is about figuring out which things should be discarded and which things should be kept and put in their rightful place.

Stay strong. Know you are not the first woman to be duped by a man. You won't be the last. But from now on, you'll be a lot wiser in your choices.

Proverbs 3:5 says that if we trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding, and in all our ways ac–Shepherd_ knowledge him, he will direct our paths.

Your library is your portrait.

The truth is so rare, Alex. I like to use it sparingly

Partial truth - the seeds of wisdom- can be found in many places. In primal instinct may partial truth be found ... in earthly law, social custom, scientific research, philosophy and religious doctrine. The seeds of wisdom are contained in all scriptures ever written ... especially in art, music and poetry ... and, above all, in Nature.

The glory of the library for me is how many of the books are in poor physical condition. They are books that have been read and read intensely. They are knocked about and shopworn. I would be ashamed of a book whose spine was not broken.

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

Now our bones are revealed like truth.

don't ever let anger do your talking for you!

In other words, knowledge arrived at through rational thinking alone, lacking in awareness that engenders wisdom, is a dangerous thing, and the greater the knowledge, the more potentially destructive it becomes.

Most people know who Pegasus is, for instance, but few realize that he was born from the blood of snake-headed Medusa immediately after she was slain by Perseus. The luminous winged stallion of the Greeks emerged from the life force of womanly wisdom in its darkest, most disturbing aspect

It is well to learn disappointment when one is young, for the gods bestow it abundantly if one cheats death for long.