Quotes About Wisdom

She said better safe than sorry. I said, that is a cliché, but Mum said things are only clichés because they are universal truths.

If he had a particle of sense he would send her packing right here and now. His mother always had said that girls would be the death of him.

She made no comment, however—possibly on the principle that once the horse had bolted there was not very much to be gained from closing the stable door—merely placed the fresh bundle on top of his bedside cupboard.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.

Children like Claudia, children who flee from relationships into a world of their own and who are unable to communicate verbally, need to be understood in a special way. It takes time and a great deal of attention, as well as wisdom and help from professionals, in order to learn how to interpret their cries and their body language which reveal the desires and needs they cannot name.

The Lord has given you two hands and a brain and a big world to use them in. Use them well, and you will be provided for; use them ill, and you will want

Do you think a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions? Character," she added solemnly, "is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.

Examinations are even entertaining, if you know the right answers.

Saya memang suka pada topi-topi serta benda-benda yang cantik, tapi saya tidak boleh menggadaikan masa depan saya untuk membeli barang-barang seperti itu.

I am learning so many new things every day that when each Saturday night comes I look back on the Sallie of last Saturday night, amazed at her ignorance.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

commencement sans fin. Tant qu'il y aura des livres, personne, jamais, n'aura le dernier mot. Belle-Ile, le 23 juillet 1989.

I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing.

L'expérience n'est que le masque dont on affuble son optimisme quand on veut le faire partager à plus jeune que soi.

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

Books knew more than you did, as a rule.

A È™ti anumite lucruri pe de rost îÈ›i confer? capacitatea unei înÈ›elegeri superioare.

CunoÈ™tinÈ›ele sunt cele care se adun? în capul nostru f?r? s? ne fie întotdeauna de vreun folos. CunoaÈ™terea e transformarea unor cunoÈ™tinÈ›e într-o experien?? de via??.

Om niet terecht te komen in de valkuilen die onze zintuigen, ons dagelijkse denken en de vastgelopen logica ons voorspiegelen.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Beware of the anger of a patient man.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.