Quotes About Wisdom

facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

There are certain things a girl just knows, like that a fourth minute on a punk song is a bad, bad idea

Girls, it's imperative you learn this now. She levels them with a mock-serious expression, and her rapt audience leans in. Boys are gonna come, and boys are gonna go. Unfortunately, some friends may even do the same. But dessert, y'all, will never let you down.

Life is muddy. Denying that—thinking there's only one noble path above the fray—can be a poisonous approach to life.

Do not consider then, however learned you are, that your knowledge is complete. For learning is the river of G-d and we drink of it throughout our lives.

How wrong she'd been, to believe a mind could reign over anything. For it did not reign even over itself . . . and despite all the arguments of all the philosophers, Ester now saw that thought proved nothing. Had Descartes, near his own death, come at last to see his folly?

If we looked through the eyes of history, we'd live differently. We'd live right.

To study with an able mind is to escape prison, for a time.

Read the newspaper, Aaron's father liked to say, you'll grow to be an educated man.

But it was her life rather than her words that gave the plainest counsel.

Ignorance is now your great enemy, and I do none any favor by flattering you that you are not ignorant.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer is a place where we can fall asleep as life moves past us to its next question. After all these years I have begun to wonder if the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

Carry shadow on your back, embrace light in your arms," the Tao Te Ching tells us)

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

I want you to be wise for your own sake, Stephen, because at the best life requires great wisdom. I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because – ' He hesitated, 'because you mayn't find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends.