Quotes About Wisdom

The mental torture went on and on until, on one of those long beach walks where Anna still lived in his mind, Pino remembered her telling him that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to," Leyers said. "That's where my poor Willy made his mistake. He got out front, right there in the light. You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen. You are like a . . . phantom of the opera.

I have come to believe after eighty-one years on this earth that our job in life is to endure, to be kind, and to constantly put the past behind us and not dwell too much on the future.

She told me once that she believed that life does not happen to you; it happens for you, and that your whole life is a blessed journey of discovery. But you can only see life clearly and relish it when the journey is almost at an end.

But someone very wise once told me that by opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.

Your father is a wise man," the cigar trader said. "Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom.

A wise man once said the bruises of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy,

Spirituality is about seeing, waking up out of a deep sleep, remembering what

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.