Quotes About Wisdom

I am sure the House will agree that given these circumstances, my final judgment will require the wisdom of Solomon.

there are defining moments in one's life when you learn a lot about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

She would have made a great teacher, and hundreds of children would have benefited from her wisdom and common sense. The truth is, we lost two generations of men in world wars, and two generations of women who weren't given the chance to take their places.

Jack. "When I was your age," he

Very few entrepreneurs don't have setbacks along the way,' said Alex. 'According to Galbraith, the wise ones chalk it up on the blackboard of experience and move on.

Dead men's words are so much more powerful than those of the living

You should read more Oscar Wilde," said Charlie, "and less Maynard Keynes.

At least it taught me a simple lesson: if you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

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Let curiosity and love of learning support you in the art of meditation.

I'm 67 years old. it took me a long time to grow up to know that almost everything we hear is not true.

To start with, look at all the books.

There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

Don't waste your time on life.

It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.

There's a time to talk and a time for silence.

I ask you: is dullness a gift? Intelligence a curse? I'm forty-seven years old and live alone.

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Quiero hacerles unas preguntas: ¿Es una cualidad la estupidez?, ¿es una maldición la inteligencia?

All wisdom ends in paradox

First there was Desdemona the week before, giving advice to her daughter-in-law. "Why you want more children, Tessie?" she had asked with studied nonchalance. Bending to look in the oven, hiding the alarm on her face (an alarm that would go unexplained for another sixteen years), Desdemona waved the idea away. "More children, more trouble . . .

the melancholic remainder of our lives (a place the Lisbon girls, wisely, it began to seem, never cared to see)

But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

Mas talvez as Pulseiras de Pingentes soubessem mais da vida do que eu. Desde muito cedo compreendiam que o mundo dava pouco valor aos livros, e por isso não gastavam seu tempo com eles. Ao passo que eu, até hoje, persisto na crença de que essas manchas pretas sobre papel branco têm a maior importância, e que, se seguir escrevendo, talvez consiga capturar num pote o arco-íris da consciência.