Quotes About Wisdom

Life is never a simple problem made of questions and one answer. There are always plenty answers.

It's too late for remorse, but the old ones always regret for something

The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done ." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.

A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.

It's not bad to know history, commander. Every generation don't need to overcome again already existing art. Especially if the hardest part of the work is already done.

Fools and gold go along with each other

The words of his own teachers spiraled in his mind then as he collapsed in the snow. They had told him that holding on to anger was like grasping a hot coal. Only he would be burned by it. Yet as the men scattered and he felt strong arms lift him up, Yao Shu held the hot coal closely and felt only warmth.

For a moment, he almost wished Jochi alive so he could tell him how different things were, how his world had grown larger that the small inheritance they had fought over. The horizons were wide enough for them all, he realized now, but the wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

Goats can be milked many times, but killed only once

Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something that does not exist.

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

And this is what I mean by "aging from the inside out." If we merely move around our internal furniture, redesigning our roles and maintaining high gear, we do not see through the ego's charade. Instead, we permit it to continue its endless efforts at control. And this does not carry us deeper into our spiritual center, beyond ego.

Jung has pointed out that bitterness and wisdom form a pair of opposites. "Where there is bitterness, wisdom is lacking, and where wisdom is, there can be no bitterness." Tears, sorrow, and disappointment are bitter, he says. But wisdom is the comforter in suffering.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber

Emotions and irrational thoughts tend to cloud our mind. They make our mind foggy so we can't think in the ways we should when situations arise. When our minds become cloudy, we don't always think before we act or speak. Instead, we act irrationally and sometimes quickly, which could easily make the situation worse.

To see the death as our own, that is the beginning of wisdom. To find the loss as our own, that is the beginning of respect for others. To feel the pain as our own, that is the beginning of kindness.

Love is for fools and dreamers, who don't know better.

beauty of heart is much more valuable than a pretty face.

Mama says beauty of heart is much more valuable than a pretty face.

Sharper than a serpent's fang is a woman's tongue

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit. from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood

When we are no longer children we are already dead.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.