Quotes About Wisdom

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Don't waste your energies kicking against an open door,

Rosebuds might be sweet, but one need never be so careful of the rose in full bloom.

There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

no insult can do us harm if only we do not say or do anything in return.

only that "WHO-center" were obvious and accessible, and if only we could steer our course by it, knowing truly that God is in all things and all choices, seeking to draw the more life-giving outcome from all we do.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

When all else fails, trust the library.

Los libros están encantados. Los libros me ayudan a viajar. Los libros me ayudan a respirar.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.

Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.

The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams

The door through which he had glimpsed such wondrous light, he had walked through. He had encountered both beauty and pain. Now he understood that was how it would always be—no matter where he went in the world.

What are true things, and what are not? What is good, and what is rubbish? Everything you encounter in life, everything you read, you have to use your own noggin.