Quotes About Wisdom

she took what she gave and she gave what she took, yes, but sometimes she gave just a little bit more – and that little bit more is the whole art of teaching, the whole art of living, in fact, and Miss Puddleton knew it.

It is not human to be wise,' said Blood. 'It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.

Morgana hat viel erlebt, und durch die Jahrtausende weise geworden, blieb es doch im Herzen ein Kind. Es ist bis heute noch kindlich genug, Neuem gegenüber Verwunderung zu empfinden. Und wer im Herzen ein Kind bleibt, wird vom Leben mit Wundern belohnt.

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Saber es mucho más que conocer, como conocer es mucho más que calcular y poder predecir. Saber es saborear y, como diremos enseguida, también amar.

Este elemento cognoscitivo puede ser una perla ya formada o una semilla que debe aún crecer; pero en cualquier caso, hay que buscarlo, cultivarlo, merecerlo, recibirlo. No está ahí; no es inmediatamente dado a todos. Es fruto de un proceso aunque éste no sea homogéneo o paulatino. Aunque pueda ser instantáneo como un relámpago, el mismo relámpago ha debido ser nube por mucho tiempo antes de revelarse como luz.

La claridad que la filosofía ofrece lleva a la superación serena de la ansiedad que carcome al hombre.

El Ser es hablante antes que pensante.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again.

As they have taught me, I believe that without asking, we are given all we need. We must have the wit and wisdom to recognize the strengths and tools at our command, and find the courage to do what must be done.

life is more than intelect

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. —Franz Kafka

Proceeding with caution and proceeding slowly are sometimes two different things. In certain circumstances, momentum could be more important than caution, though it was never wise to dispense with wariness.

Life would be easy if common sense ruled; but sometimes the easy way doesn't feel like the right way.

The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel.

How have you kept yourself as yourself all these years? 'Books,' the boy said. 'Thousands of books.' 'They must have been the right books.' 'Some were, some weren't. You figure out which are which.' 'How do you figure it out?' 'At first by how you feel.' 'And later?' 'By reading what's there on the page and also what's not.' 'Between the lines,' she said. 'Under the lines,' he said. -Annamaria and Timothy -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 328 chapter 49

In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we're dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by our wisdom and our ignorance. In my experience, survival depends on hoping for the best while recognizing that disaster is more likely and that it can't be averted if it can't be imagined.

Curtis' mother always said that the better you know others, the better you will know yourself, and that in the fullest sharing of experience, we learn the wisdom of the world.

Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute.

The clump-and-thud of avalanching books suggested that someone must be using the weapon of knowledge in an unconventional fashion.