Quotes About Wisdom

Don't get your drawers in a twist,' was one of her favourite phrases, 'or you'll find yourself bum-bare in the market-place . . . .

Mary Buffett

First one is astonished at the things one learns with comparative ease. Then one is appalled by the things one doesn't know.

Knowledge is power. Always pays to be nice until nice no longer serves you.

If life had taught her anything, it was to listen to her instincts.

Mais pour regner il faut se taire.

Sometimes it's better not to know. Nothing can change what is or what happened and digging around in the past is only going to make you miserable.

To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.

Mary Carolyn Waldrep

Death is also the moment of a gift that the old give to the young, a last opportunity to teach about life, but is so shaped by accident and happenstance that the moment may pass and wisdom is often unexpressed. The young stand by, wanting to give back to their parents some fraction of the care given to them, hoping that their parents will meet death in a way that softens the anticipation of death in their own lives and reconfirms their sense of the integrity or generosity of their parents.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." ? Mary Catherine Bateson

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

One heartbreak is like a thousand lessons. Loving again is learning them.

My sisters have taught me how to live.

Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.

Those who love your instructions have great peace and do not stumble.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

I know they say that first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.