Quotes About Wisdom

I read.. because one life is not enough

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

I read because one life isn't enough.

Your journey will proceed faster with a brief delay.' In other words, don't go off half-cocked, but don't wait until the other fellow shoots you either." A

There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.' " The Chinese engineer smiles. "Good one." " 'When is the next best time? Now.' " "Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

Buddha's words: A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.

A great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.

And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, "Chance favors the prepared mind.

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Life gives you all the koans you need.

You don't know anything until you know Everything.

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

And there is a proud kind of moderation likewise, when men will take upon them to censure both parties, as if they were wiser than both

The church of Christ is a common hospital, wherein all are in some measure sick of some spiritual disease or other, so all have occasion to exercise the spirit of wisdom and meekness.