Quotes About Wisdom

I never wanted to fall in love. Only stupid girls compromised themselves that way, and I was too smart to sell myself short.

Ignore everything you think you know and listen only to your heart, without doubting anything.

I never said that I knew everything. I'm just confident that I'm well-informed on many subjects.

Dumb is just not knowing. 'Ditzy' is having the courage to ask!

Your hands already know too much.

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call breaking is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!

learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.

Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.

The unknown words remind me that there's a lot I don't know in this world.

Le parole sconosciute mi ricordano che c'è tanto che non conosco in questo mondo.

My grandfather always says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

Ghosh shook his head. 'You are still young. Free,' he said spreading his hands apart for emphasis. 'Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late. 'My grandfather always says that's what books are for,' Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. 'To travel without moving an inch.

So che sarei insoddisfatta, incompleta, se non la imparassi.

Books come to stand for various episodes in our lives, for certain idealisms, follies of belief, moments of love. Along the way they accumulate our marks, our stains, our innocent abuses—they come to wear our experience of them on their covers and bindings like wrinkles on our skin.

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

You need to be careful not to over-reach and also assess the capacity you have to work with.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day