Quotes About Wisdom

The highest ranking wolf in the pack isn't the one that uses brute force. It's the one who can, and chooses not to.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. —CHINESE PROVERB

And that's what I think love is...when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege, too.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened.

My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.

You don't know what you don't know

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege too.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. —WALLACE STEGNER, THE SPECTATOR BIRD

Why bring up something that hurts so much, if it's not going to change anything?

When the matriarch is gone, so is the herd's collective memory.

Prisiminimai n?ra kapitalas, kur? turi vis? gyvenim?.Tai - tam tikra atminties kiekyb?,sukaupiama,sužadinama ir išstumiama ? s?mon?.

Niekas nepradeda karo- ar bent jau ne vienas protingas zmogus neturetu jo pradeti - tvirtai nesuvokdamas, ka siuo karu jis ketina pasiekti ir kaip jis ketina kariauti.

it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Even the smartest person in the world could be scared by what he did or did not understand.

Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though that knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever? I am about to give her my opinion when Eliza is

priest said, 'What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.' I was thirteen, and I didn't know very much about the world, but I knew that if there was that much wisdom in religion, I wanted to be part of it.

on top of a print of a turbaned man with a face as old as honesty.

La vera forza de lupo non sta nelle sue tremende mandibole, che possono stringere con una pressione di oltre cento chili per centimetro quadrato. La vera forza di un lupo sta nell'avere quella capacità e sapere quando non usarla.

Truth expands until it can choke you.

She'd thought that death could be an answer, because she was too immature to realize it was the biggest question of all. Yesterday

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.' I was thirteen, and I didn't know very much about the world, but I knew that if there was that much wisdom in religion, I wanted to be part of it.

Todo el mundo piensa que se cometen errores cuando se es joven—le dijo la jueza a Lacy—. Pero no creo que cometamos menos cuando somos adultos.