Quotes About Wisdom

Everything that has ever happened to me is still all with me.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

How can you make a beautiful ending without making beautiful mistakes.

Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always be sweetness and light.

He must, he realized, know somewhere, deep inside him, more things than he had ever dreamed of.

and how positively full and brimming-to-burst with words I am. This is what Mrs. Bullwhyte would call one of my extended flights of fancy. She said that I am terribly prone to them and often told me that I should rein myself in or the world was bound to disappoint me.

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Beware of the brokenhearted," said the grandmother, "for they will lead you astray.

The story is smarter than I am.

I ain't learned a thing. Not one thing. Except that there ain't nothing in this world that can't happen. That's it. That's the whole of it.

Now, don't get started on that. Remember what I said: There's no point in looking back.

Stories are light

You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher? Oh no! Mrs Carey remarked with a smile, I am just a mother- that's all!

We must all learn the measure of our strength. Otherwise we exhaust ourselves striving for that which we can never gain.

He had such a kind voice, that of a man who sees his own faults and forgives himself for them--not arrogantly or leniently but with wisdom--knowing he, as are all humans, is hopelessly flawed.

I have been bitten by the snake too

There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.

Never begrudge the seed you sow in good soil, for it is the harvest that comes from that sowing that will determine whether you live or die next spring. Think not only for this day, but for the one that is to come.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

That is true. But nevertheless, you are like the prisoners in the cave, your legs and necks shackled by your maps and your walls so that all you can see is the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall of the cave. You think they are the truth, but they are only a shadow of the truth, which lies—" He gestured to the sky and the plain and the distant spiral curl that was the growing city of Sarai. "—out here, under the gaze of the sun and the moon and the stars.

Was it not Democritus of your own country who said, 'Well-ordered behavior consists in obedience to the law, the ruler, and the woman wiser than oneself'? Although in the text I read the words were written as, 'the man wiser,' but I can only suppose the scribe wrote the word wrong or meant it to be 'Elder.

Here. He handed the rose to Hanna. Take this one to my niece. Tell her that it would be well for her to remember that the thorns of those words which mislead without lying are small but persistent, and that the white rose which symbolizes purity is also veined with flaws.

She's read many books.