Quotes About Wisdom

At last, after all the tale telling and all the yarn spinning, after the smoke screens and the trick mirrors and the double bluffs, I knew.

Sapient'? Whatever is that?" " 'Tis a clever word meaning wise. Which is a thing you would know if you was sapient yourself.

that. I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life

And is it better to know?" he asked me. "I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back.

Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?

she could not be less than seventy-three or -four, and to judge by her appearance, altered though it was by illness and makeup, she could be no more than eighty.

Once you said a thing, it could never be taken back and would be taken up and repeated and altered and told again, no matter how misshapen and out of true. Better to say nothing.

And is it better to know? he asked me. I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back.

It was laconic, but it was true. As soon as you started to put more words in, you came to unreason.

A whole lot of good my IQ came when it came to judging his character.

Hangin' upside down ain't good for nobody but possums.

Spirituality is not just about religion, or church attendance, or fidelity to one or other legal requirement. Spirituality is understood to be an innate wisdom of the human heart that enlivens a zest for life, a search for meaning and purpose, a love for all that is good and beautiful, a passion to create a better world, a sensitivity to the life-energy (God, if you wish) that permeates the entire cosmos.

For Jung, the collective unconscious can simply be described as an envelope of wisdom embracing everything in creation, humans included. For Jung, it is essentially of God and may well be considered as the wise and enduring power of divine Spirit infused throughout the whole of creation….Long dismissed as an esoteric illusive fantasy, the collective unconscious begins to look very similar to the notion of the creative vacuum of pure space, or modern physics.

Never make the same mistake twice. You are your best critic!

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. SUN TZU

Thought before action, if you have time

I gazed at him. He was old enough to know that few things were fair. Most five-year-olds had already discovered it.

What I've come to learn in my long life is that ignorance is not bliss; it is time consuming and costly as hell.

If the information out there echoes the information inside of us, could it be that the great turmoil of unrecognized wisdom within us is forcing us to race along the information superhighway, hoping that we will discover what we already have? —Malidoma Patrice Somé

No matter how little a man may add to the fund of human knowledge it's worth the doing, for it's by little bits that we've learned to know so much of our old world.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused.…Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen." —George Saunders

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

Oh, wise young judge.

Simon: You always were wise beyond your years. Cassandra: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.