Quotes About Wisdom

May the living stars preserve us from those so certain of their own virtue.

Get the blazes out of here before I have an attack of common sense.

Wisdom does not lie in accepting what the illusion shows us. It lies in trying to change the illusion in favor of what is real. You have already cast your shadow wide and done what many said could not be.

This weapon I am giving you is a tool, an emergency tool. It is not to be depended upon as a first resort, or a second, or even a third. Your greatest assets will always be your mind and your ability to act on wise decisions. Fail to make proper use of those assets, and the weapon cannot save you. Remember that, Mari.

If the people we think we see are but shadows of the world illusion, what matter what we tell them? It becomes not a matter of truth and lies, but a question of whether either matters. The choice of what to do is mine.

The answer? There is no answer. Only choices which can have many outcomes, some expected, and some unforeseen. Perhaps that is the only wisdom there really is, young Mage: that our choices matter. As your choices matter, perhaps more than those of anyone else at this time.

Doubt about your wisdom can be the clearest sign of wisdom

how little we know even today about the most fundamental things.

Geary looked at Dr. Nasr, running the physician's words through his mind. "We need to be sure we're asking the right question in order to get the right answer? Is that what you're saying?" "Yes. If you only think you know the question, the answers you come up with will not be adequate or correct.

Como dice el viejo refrán, a veces el peligro no reside en lo que ignoras, sino en lo que crees saber.

Her Aunt Alli seemed to be speaking to her, repeating a familiar lesson. Don't let having a gun make you confident, because confident people do stupid things, and if you need a gun you can't afford to be stupid. Thinking that it wouldn't be too hard to stay scared in this situation, Kira tried to smile at Jason. "This is important. We'll get it done.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that counts. BOB PROCTOR

Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.

Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. -Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW THAT HOLDS YOU BACK; IT'S WHAT YOU DO KNOW THAT ISN'T TRUE

Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. -Credited to Ms. Rose Written by Dan Clark

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

The truth is the truth. You are better off knowing the truth than not knowing it.

What it takes is the courage to follow those whispers of wisdom that guide us from inside. When I listen to that, I expect nothing less than a miracle. -Marilyn Johnson Kondwani

It does not matter how old or wise you get, life is about believing and listening to your inner voice. I still believe in angels, fairies and butterflies and that keeps me smiling. Ambika

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~Thomas à Kempis

Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter. -Author Unknown

Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright. -Job 33:23

Who has begun, has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin! –Horace, Epistles