Quotes About Wisdom

I wanted to say something profound, that Julian was only human, that he was old, that flesh and blood are frail and weak and that there comes a time when we have to transcend our teachers.

only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand.

I felt I understood the secret grandeur of dying, all the knowledge held back from all humankind until the very end:

I knew it deeply and irrationally like knowledge in a dream.

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light as laughter, and that this was a secret of the universe.

I]t is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

I believe that having a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially

I believe people can't learn wisdom without suffering.

No one is ever too old to do a foolish thing.

El que no sabe llevar su contabilidad Por espacio de tres mil años Se queda como un ignorante en la oscuridad Y sólo vive al día.

The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

The mature nation, like the mature man, is one which has made a workable accommodation between its aspirations and its limitations.

As we learn from our yesterday our today gets clearer. Breathe and go forward

There's a difference between seeking the truth and being willfully ignorant,

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

I believe that every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon," she said, quite seriously.

believe that every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon," she said, quite seriously.

You don't know how many years it took to tone it down to that.

Those who lead a literary life seem old when they're young and young when they're old, but they're never actually either. Like a good book, they are bound by neither category nor time.

A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world— one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.