Quotes About Wisdom

la experiencia es buena cuando viene de la mano del vigor; después, cuando el vigor se va, uno pasa a ser una decorosa pieza de museo, cuyo único valor es ser un recuerdo de lo que se fue.

pero el silencio oscuro repite ojalá puedas ojalá puedas contigo y con los otros y además llegues a viejo para narrar con soltura esta hazaña grisácea

Un niño de mi clase dice que su abuela es una vieja de mierda. Yo le enseñé que en todo caso debe decir una anciana de mierda.

El tiempo es un viaje de escalas infinitas donde aprendemos y enseñamos algo. Aleluya.

I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

The Greek excellence in mathematics was largely a direct consequence of their passion for knowledge for its own sake, rather than merely for practical purposes. A story has it that when a student who learned one geometrical proposition with Euclid asked, "But what do I gain from this?" Euclid told his slave to give the boy a coin, so that the student would see an actual profit.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

You should know better than to run from a storm, too. We wolves are careful. Always we are careful. But we are not afraid. Not of our own good world.(pp. 48)

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

The Goddess is the unspeakable wisdom that grows into the very cells of the body. She lives with this sacramental truth at her center: the beauty and the horror of the whole of life are blazing in Her love. She is dancing in the flames.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

The man who feels fear without cause is a fool; but the man is twice a fool who does not feel fear when there is cause.

Nowadays, I want to be smart, but back then, I'm afraid I wanted to seem smart, too.

It just seems like we --human beings -- know so much, but it's nothing compared to what we don't know.

Leaning on a cane, with a book tucked under her free arm, she navigated carefully across the grass, her eyes on the ground, and then just as she got to where we sat, she raised her head - her white hairs starry as dandelion fluff in the morning sun - and smiled at me. "Courage, dear heart," she said in a ringing, surprisingly young voice, then dropped her eyes and walked on.

Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head.

Snaaks, het sy dikwels daarna gedink, hoe 'n mens sulke lewensveranderende besluite sommer so op die ingewing van die oomblik kan neem. Grinnikend oor 'n glas wyn. Want jy weet nie wat die werklik belangrike besluite in jou lewe is terwyl jy hulle neem nie. Eers later, wanneer jy terugkyk, besef jy dat alles anders sou uitgewerk het as jy dáár anders besluit het. Of dalk nie.

In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.