Quotes About Wisdom

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair. Proverbs 1:3

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councilor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind.

The earth is flat. Those who fall off don't return. The earth is round. All things reveal themselves to men only gradually. I

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.

And I am not old," she continued. "I am but thirty." "Ah, but you will be thirty-one come the sixth of March," he said. "You certainly are not young." "I believe we may have to return to the topic of my weight," she said tartly. "You will be more apt to see thirty-six that way.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

We all throw away perfectly wonderful lives because our foolish, sinful appetites take us places we should not go.

Inside every old man lies the heart of a ten-year-old boy. Brave . . . unstoppable. The defender of field mice!

A simple yes or no will suffice.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

It's important to live a complicated life.

When human women are said to be traps that lead to the downfall of men, Buddhist philosophers and psychologists would insist that it is not women per se that endanger men but rather women as they appear to deluded men.

The panning shot of the soldiers as they ready themselves for the onslaught and now I finally see that I'm the one with the scar running down half her face and that these eyes . . . ohhhh, these eyes have seen some horrors. And that that's a good thing. Age. Wisdom. Being forty. I like it here.

The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.

the sacred principles of life have never been written down: they belong to the heartbeat, to the rhythm of the breath and the flow of blood. They are alive like the rain and the rivers, the waxing and waning of the moon. If we learn to listen we will discover that life, the Great Mother, is speaking to us, telling us what we need to know." —Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

When the Sufi Abû Sa'îd ibn Abî-l-Khayr was asked what Sufism entailed he replied: "Whatever you have in your mind—forget it; whatever you have in your hand—give it; whatever is to be your fate—face it!

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable, unimplicated sun.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.