Quotes About Wisdom

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

I assumed," Ai-ming told me, "that when Big Mother's stories finished, life would continue and I would go back to being myself. But it wasn't true. The stories got longer and longer, and I got smaller and smaller. When I told my grandmother this, she laughed her head off. She said, 'But that's how the world is, isn't it? Or did you think you were bigger than the world?

He remembered Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the world and to live out Your brief time without fear All this I cannot do.

Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the world and to live out Your brief time without fear

Stop thinking like a madman, or you will end up acting like an ass.

If that is wisdom, then I will never be wise. I do not want a life that has no place for you in it. You will come back with me and take the place that is yours in my heart. No obligations to the past stand in the way. We will marry. ---Addis de Valence

There will be another betrothal, another Mathilda. You speak of only a respite, and my heart can take just so many such partings before it breaks forever. You are proof enough that each of us lives several lives before we perish. There is wisdom in accepting when one ends and another begins. i love you, Addis. I always will. But there is no place for me in the life you have now.

Many leading educators and psychologists believe that it is the ability to ask good questions that characterizes both intelligence and creativity.

the basis of all true learning.

Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.

It's not fair," I said. "It cannot be." "Those are two different things," my grandmother said.

Most men do not know me for what I am." "Most men in my experience are fools," he said.

There was nothing clever to say, so I said something foolish.

Her only love was reason. And that has never been the same as wisdom.

That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool.

Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring down fire on your head.

I had walked the earth for a hundred generations, yet I was still a child to myself.

Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.' - Chiron

This was the cruelty of adults. Do you understand?