Quotes About Wisdom

Maybe the point of life is to give up certainty and to embrace life's beautiful uncertainty.

To know which path to take, it helps to take a few wrong ones.

Don't absorb criticism from people you wouldn't go to for advice.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.' – Socrates (after losing our quiz!!!!)

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.

Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.

Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.

For decades and decades and decades I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realise it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

Read poetry. Especially poetry by Emily Dickinson. It might save you. Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

To read, to seek, to know.

Be humble because you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars. Serbian proverb

No wonder they were a species of primitives. By the time they have read enough books to actually reach a state of knowledge where they can do anything with it, they are dead.

Every dead end and cul-de-sac helps us escape the maze. To know which path to take, it helps to take a few wrong ones.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'.

She remembered studying Aristotle as a first-year Philosophy student. And being a bit depressed by his idea that excellence was never an accident. That excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives'.

Well, maybe we should try not to understand so much, and accept some more.

If you live long enough you realise that every proven fact is later disproved and then proven again.

A book is a map .... There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. ... The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

It was making me think about human life in a way I didn't want to think about it. Human life, I realized, got progressively worse as you got older, by the sound of things.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting

Even the bad experiences serve a purpose

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