Quotes About Wisdom

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. — Nigerian Proverb

To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential for the survival of the subordinate.

Listen to your heart, it speaks, hear its words

Our Mother, who art within us, We celebrate your many names. Your wisdom come. Your will be done, Unfolding from the depths within us. Each day you give us all that we need. You remind us of our limits and we let go. You support us in our power and we act with courage. For you are the dwelling place within us, the empowerment around us, and the celebration among us. As it was in the very beginning, may it be now.

Softly and tenderly. Wisdom is calling. Calling for you and for me. Come home. Come home. All who are weary come home. Softly and tenderly. Wisdom is calling. Calling, O woman, come home.

It's WA today, Minna," called Orson from across the room, Orson's name for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Orson played second violin with a sloppy serenity, rolling his eyes and sticking out his tongue, his bowing long and sweeping and beautiful even when out of tune. "If you must make a mistake," he had quoted, "make it a big one." Was it Heifetz who had said it? Perlman? Zukerman maybe?

Old women in the house. That's all we need," grumped Grandfather. "That from an old man, of course," said Papa.

Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

Didn't say it was easy. Said it was simple. Some of the simplest things aren't easy at all.

Honey is sweet] and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

Certainty is the enemy of knowledge.

You can see a lot of the world from a curb.

Las máquinas hacían la vida más fácil, o eso es lo que creíamos, pero invadían y despedazaban la tierra y el cielo de maneras que apenas comprendíamos. Estas dos primeras innovaciones, el cultivo y la creación de maquinas que trabajaran para nosotros, tendrían que habernos enseñado a cuidar del mundo, pero no lo hicieron. Lo único que aprendimos fue a inventar formas de destruirlo mejor.

Their eyes had seen so much that they no longer distinguished between dream and reality. And they had so few illusions they were through asking questions of anyone, even of themselves.

Réchauffe ta parole avant de la dire. Parle dans ton cœur. Savoir parler c'est savoir retenir sa parole. Parler vraiment c'est d'abord astiquer du silence. Le vrai silence est un endroit de La Parole. Écoute les vrais Conteurs.

Perhaps animals are smarter than men, he thought, taking only what they need to live today leaving something for tomorrow.

I'll bet I'm the only eighty-five-year-old cracker left with all his own teeth.

and they don't have to know about a lot of things that ordinary mortals just don't have to know about!

I love quotes because good quotes are vitamins for the brain!

the law is a blind woman and the judge usually an unloved old man.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.