Quotes About Wisdom

All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived.

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

But...that doesn't make any sense...!' 'It does if you're a goat.

The definition of a spiritual person is someone who makes 30–50 mistakes each day and talks to the Creator after each one to see what to do next time.

Traditional Native peoples, on the other hand, have been trained to Listen. They place so much importance on Listening that tribal groups have developed the talking circle ceremony in order to share the inner wisdom that comes from Listening. The primary purpose of the talking circle ceremony is to Listen to people's innermost feelings about an issue. Each participant in the talking circle is a reflection of Spirit, so the words spoken in the circle are considered sacred and holy.

A native friend of mine writes: It can be hard to tell true Guidance from your own ego in disguise. True Guidance is subtle and can be overshadowed by our own wishful thinking. So Guidance is most trustworthy when what it tells you is something you don't want to do, or at least something you would never have thought of yourself. Guidance is most questionable when it matches what you do want to do.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

I have always believed that one learns more from failure than from success.

Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.

T)he path to wisdom lies not in certainty, but in trying to understand.

Fight hard and fight well. But know that a quest for justice without wisdom and compassion can all too easily become cruelty.

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

The blinding colors on his tie resembled a Rorschach test and prompted Jazz to slip on her sunglasses.

Hey doll," he growled. "You look like trouble on showgirl legs.

Gloria Allred had nothing on a witch fighting for her bunny slippers' rights!

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

Greatness is not always largeness.

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

A learner is never without a teacher as long as they have the book to learn from.

Fortune's truth is regret's denial.

Vision is three-dimensional - consisting of insight, foresight, and perspective.