Quotes About Wisdom

Maybe we are always all of our ages at once, like nesting matryoshka dolls?

Because it's not always easy to know how to live.

Or perhaps I'll learn the difference between a boy's dreams and a man's." He paused, and then said, "When I marry, my father will live again in my sons." He

The man who wants to marry me is very rich and strong. He lives near here. He built his house in three days." "A proper house or a hut?" he wanted to know. "A real house, with shingles and a pitched roof, and glass windows." He was silent for a moment, and I was sure I'd finally impressed him. "Three days," he said at last. "There is no wisdom in such hurrying. This house will not stand long.

The pilgrims and the lost often did look the same, as Denys had once told me, and it was possible everyone ended up in the same place no matter which path we took or how often we fell to our knees, undoubtedly wiser for all of it. Barely

I was thinking about how I had struggled and strained for years, as Karen had, and toward things that were disastrous for me. And maybe that was unavoidable. The pilgrims and the lost often did look the same, as Denys had once told me. And it was possible everyone ended up in the same place no matter which path we took or how often we fell to our knees, undoubtedly wiser for all of it.

And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

Denys had a way of seeing everything as if he knew it would never be there exactly the same again. He understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistence or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

I can't see him through the smoke but recognize the solid, spreading warmth of his skin and his smell, which has always been exactly like this, the scent of trees becoming wise.

If you want to know real joy in life, then be willing to let pain tutor your soul.

Love anything . . . and your heart will be wrung. The more you succeed at love—the more you will have to lose. But honestly, would playing it safe and hedging your bets take you any place you really wanted to be? And as painful as love can be, could wisdom be won by any other means?

The lord giveth and most women piss it away. Perhaps this is why they lack the equipment to aim.

Guys are like dogs. You wish you could take them all home when they're young. But after they've howled all night and slobbered all over everything, you come to realize the ones already trained are much easier to live with.

Mom recognizes only two sources of wisdom -- the bible and Hallmark.

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

Don't get mad, get smart

Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.

Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

Boobs on the make always try to impress with their high level of seriousness (wise guys, with their contempt for all seriousness).

Lack of knowledge is dangerous

Past is a place of reference not a place of residence.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.