Quotes About Wisdom

Seals do not sit about and tell, the way people do, and their lives are not eventful in the way people's are, lines of story combed again and again, in the hope that they will yield more sense with every stroke.

Edith's mother used to say, 'An immaculate home is a sign of a misspent life.

strive to be comfortable in chaos and complexity. Be as a shaman who walks in many worlds.

For there's nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he's clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool." Marguerite de Valois

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Very early in my life it was too late.

such calls for caution

Marguerite Porete

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.

Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.

Je sais que je ne sais pas ce que je ne sais pas.

Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.

Let us cry for the spilt milk , by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk , and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. RAINER MARIA RILKE , Letters to a Young Poet

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

Maria Dahvana Headley

Let him grow up, I was thinking the whole time. That's an old prayer. It comes in every language.

It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding.

Pero que los pensamientos estén los libros y sean leídos no significa que el tiempo esté maduro ya para ellos.