Quotes About Wisdom

Life is like an adventure, you have to gain experience from it, by not experiencing the real world, there's no meaning to life. Life is like a game, if you dont play the game the right way, you end up playing it the hard way.

Life is not about having everything. Its about finding meaning in everything.

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Being prepared to die is one of the greatest secrets of living.

Always thank God for all the good and bad graces we received for He gave us lessons to learn and wisdom to grow.

I'm thankful for every break in my heart, I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned.

I am thankful for all the poor choices I have made in my life because they all eventually led me to where I am... and I couldn't ask for a better place to be.

In the old days, nature was our people's only school and they needed no other.

Sioux and elephants never forget.

You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head. —Lame Deer

You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.

Look at the real reality beneath the sham realities of things and gadgets," Leonard always tells me. "Look through the eye in your heart. That's the meaning of Indian religion.

In the old days a man made a name for himself by being generous and wise, but now he has nothing to be generous with, no jobs, no money; and as far as our traditional wisdom is concerned, our men are being told by the white missionaries, teachers, and employers that it is merely savage superstition.

To teach thee, I am naked first; why then What needst thou have more covering then a man. JOHN

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

She was not just old—she was ancient. Bent and bony, no bigger than Selene, her flyaway white hair floated around her head like dandelions gone to seed. She'd wrapped herself in a thick knitted shawl of every imaginable color woven into complex patterns—a sun here, a moon there, stars all over, rivers and trees and birds and animals. A person could look at it all day and still find something he hadn't noticed before.

This same Jesus, though, didn't say we had to be in relationship with everyone. We are not to 'throw [our] pearls to pigs.' (See Matthew 7:6.) He didn't deeply entrust his heart to Pharisees. You see him slipping through the throng of people bent on killing him. Often he withdrew from crowds in order to be with his Father. His is a story of connection with others, yes, but it's also a reminder that relationships don't come with an easy-to-understand blueprint.

Dear Jesus, I pray you will show me the importance of humbling myself like a little child. Instead of instructor today, help me put on the hat of "learner." Use my children, Lord, to teach me more about you. Use their words to point me to your Word. Use their freedom to infuse freedom into my heart.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

They Thought Themselves only a step lower than the gods, proud in their power over heaven and earth. They grew strong in their knowledge but weak in their wisdom, craving more and still more power, crushing the defenseless. _ Morrighan Book of Holy Text,Vol. IV