Quotes About Wisdom

She advised self-preservation. What a relief! How remarkable!

The Stoics are exhorters. And at their best, they exhort us to rise to our potential through reason, cooperation, and selflessness.

Epictetus tells us, "It is not easy to gain the attention of young men who are soft, for you cannot get hold of soft cheese with a hook; but the naturally gifted, even if you turn them away, hold all the more firmly to reason.

what's life without a spice of stupidity

Three mysteries are grasped by no man: The mistletoe green between earth and sky, The sadness in a maiden's smile, The runes shaped by the changing moon.

Often, Bessie would reply, "Child, I don't think that's a question anyone on this earth has the true answer for. The best advice I can give you is to keep reading.

hasn't," Kennedy reminded

one of the truest rules of teaching, he thought. When you teach someone else, you always learn.

Thirty-three is not old." Dosana was all of twenty-two so Iris was not inclined to believe she knew what she was talking about. "Jesus was thirty three when he died." "But not of old age.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

The more you read, the more you will find your thoughts and conversation reflecting your reading, and the more you will want to read.

Contentment maintains control over the spirit and does not allow ungoverned passions and unrestrained emotions to bring discomposure right at the moment when the greatest composure is called for. Contentment calms the heart and leads the heart to act and speak wisely, even when under great provocation.

We often think contentment is something that happens to us, rather than something that we take pains to learn.

Peter) Best to remember that life is lived not just in phases but also in layers.

I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.

I have suffered great losses and have been blessed with great consolations, but whatever life may give me or take away, this is the simple wisdom that will always light my life: I have loved, passionately, fearlessly, with all my heart and all my soul, and I have been loved in return. For me, this is enough.

A wise man is always a fool in the sight of those who know nothing about life.

Your time is precious if you make use of it at the appropriate way, moment and right place.

the highest among us aren't always the wisest,

no true knowledge is ever reached without pain.

She has always known exactly how to be silent.

Os han enseñado que sois impuras, que no sois sagradas, que vuestro cuerpo es impuro y jamás podréis albergar lo divino. Os han enseñado a despreciar todo lo que sois y a desear ser un hombre. Pero son mentiras. La Diosa está en vuestro interior, ha regresado a la Tierra para enseñaros, con la forma de este nuevo poder. No acudáis a mí en busca de respuestas, pues debéis encontrar las respuestas en vuestro interior.»

The knowledge is as good as freedom.