Quotes About Wisdom

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming to me, I expect.

Her father used to say The death of a horse is the life of a crow, and Ada had never really taken in the meaning of the phrase. But she knew it in her bones now.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon , February 4, 2015].

Whoever follows Him "will have the light of life.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Old G.K. knew when to fast and when to down a good ale. It's the timing. It's all in the timing. [On G.K. Chesterton]

He came to love adversity as an unsentimental but beloved teacher.

I see only light, Daddo." "Then I fear for you, my son. For a man who sees only light will stumble over the things that lie in shadows." "Then does a man who looks only at shadows not also stumble, for lack of seeing light?

What is failure? The only failure is to reject what God wishes to show us. You experienced many things, did you not?

A degraded word is a blow to the mind. A true, illuminating word is a seed. The fruitfulness of the seed depends on the soil in which it is planted.

He is interested not so much in imparting information as implanting in us the tools of awareness.

Josip considers this a very good sign. Winston may be abandoning his habit of confusing data for wisdom.

Eat bread and salt, and speak the truth' ", said Father Sergius. "That is one of our old proverbs.

Tell me, Pan Tarnowski, did your father not teach you to discern good from evil?

In time of crisis it is better to do any intelligent thing quickly than to hesitate, searching for the ideal.

The pillars of wisdom are these: humility, powerlessness, poverty, loneliness, sickness, rejection, and abandonment.

Michael Dahl

Por qué desperdiciar la vida buscando un epitafio? «Te recordamos con cariño.» ¿Quién salvo un idiota quiere algo así cincelado sobre su cabeza? No es más que incontinencia sentimental.

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, not by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it. Carlos Castaneda