Quotes About Wisdom

You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.

all creatures with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

He'd been reading at a college level since he was seven years old, which maybe didn't mean a whole lot, considering that many college graduates didn't seem to know anything.

so perhaps in our postmodern rejection of the past, we cast aside more wisdom than ignorance.

The past cannot be redeemed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is.

have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

make us humbler and give us a better chance of avoiding the arrogance that would destroy our world as they destroyed theirs. The Nihilim, those you call the Screamers

Dorian Purcell, working with a federal agency, funded a reckless research project into the engineering of the human genome and sited the work in rural Utah—but now people were dying here. Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction.

all-seeing and all-knowing. Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction

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we're finally getting a little wisdom when we're able to see that even loss can be beautiful if it makes us love more the things we haven't lost.

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing an eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no delusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

Under the final level of apparent chaos, one finds strange order again, and the final level of order is thought." "Thought?

Do not seek truth; merely cease to cherish opinions.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

We all make mistakes. The key is learning from those mistakes and not repeating them.

The challenge is to learn from those mistakes so we don't repeat them.

Everyone made stupid mistakes, no matter what their age. The key was growing from the experience, becoming wiser and smarter.

Oftentimes when God works, what happens makes no sense. It will all come together down the road. Trust me on this.

You know if it'd been three wise women searching for the newborn babe, they would have asked for directions much sooner, found the stable, swept it out, and had a meal waiting by the time Mary and Joseph arrived.

if he'd learned anything in his four-year marriage it was that women were rarely practical when it came to matters of the heart.

when we fail to be kind and loving, then we fail to be wise.

my mother telling me never to go to bed without resolving an argument.