Quotes About Wisdom

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

People with visions should go to the doctor.

Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him or her a loving truth bomb when needed.

Not knowing is a good place to start," he says, and this feels like a revelation. I spend so much time trying to figure things out, chasing the answer, but it's okay to not know .

His expression is intense but gentle, a combination of a wise elder and a stuffed animal, and it comes with a message:

ultracrepidarianism, which means "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back. What a chilling idea.

the most powerful truths—the ones people take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right;

You have two ears and one mouth; there's a reason for that ratio"),

As I grew older, I found I could surrender my own comfort so effortlessly it didn't qualify as sacrifice.

There's too much information out there. And not enough smart people.

I can't exactly say why I've chosen to write about the things that I am writing about. There are doubtless better stories from my life that I am missing, events and escapades I am not wise enough to know were important. If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars that they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead. p 179

In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.

Uncle Stash said you didn't have to be crazy to to do something stupid, just young.

Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

First and foremost, Austen was sensible. She didn't feed her romantic imagination to excess.