Quotes About Wisdom

Buddhahood is attained by recognizing one's nature.

It's not like I can change any of it now. I can only use the experience to avoid such situations in the future.

Paladin: age is the price of living.

A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN

My self-confidence, love of wisdom, and desire to change the world were rooted in that brief period, when I climbed out of despair to rebirth.

You cannot know wisdom. You can only be wisdom.

Love gets bigger after forty," Fenton tells me. "After forty,, love says, 'Come one, come all.

I believe—like religion—that the glimmer, the metaphor, if you will, knows a great deal more than I do. And if I stay out of its way, it will reveal itself to me. I will become not so much its keeper as its conduit, and I will pass its wisdom on to the reader, without actually getting in its way" (79).

I'm just saying, I guess, there's another version, after this version, to look forward to. Because of wisdom or hormones or just enough years going by. If you live long enough you quit chasing the things that hurt you; you eventually learn to hear the sound of your own voice.

what if you could have all the wisdom of a lifetime and still look like you looked when you were twenty-five' 'or what?' I say. 'what, what' she says. I say, 'I thought we were playing Would You Rather...?' She twists her head like a dog at a foghorn. 'Marla,' I say, 'you get the wisdom because you don't anymore look like you did when you were twenty-five.' She says, 'You don't understand the rules to this game.

Guenevere brought me a cookie and a big box of Kleenex. She said that choices can't be good or bad. There is only the event and the lessons learned from it.

had been born knowing that if you held the proper measuring stick, animals would always test smarter than people, and nothing I've seen in my lifetime has disabused me of that notion. We may have more complicated language, opposable thumbs and this dangerous thing called reason, but any self-respecting llama or buffalo or spider knows enough not to destroy its own home.

How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea of what the answer will be.

have always needed to know.

You are wise to fear. Only the fool doesn't. But don't hide from your fear. Wear it like a cloak of armor.

I don't really feel like I want to chase youth. I want to get old. I want to experience all the seasons of my life.

his father had taught him when he was still a boy that men should always show respect for women because women carried inside them the place where life began.

Honey, if we could cure stupid, I'd be out of a job.

Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. "Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.

in the past, respect for the wisdom of the elders was a central tenet of human societies ... whose elders served as keepers of the cultures' knowledge. But today, in technological countries such as ours, respect has faded into bare tolerance, as we demand that older people act, look, and talk young.

So he decided he would never listen to anybody he knew? That's just like someone in a fairy tale.' Knowing he had given his trust amiss, how could he bestow it again?' That's foolish. Did he expect never to make any mistakes?