Quotes About Wisdom

Bird 1: This is the wrong story. Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient.

Verse. Chorus. Verse. I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

We could pull it apart, spend our whole lives pulling it apart and have no time left to do anything smart with the pieces.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience

By maturity, he meant that he learned to control those more youthful impulses, not that he was no longer stung or hurt or angry. It is not that you always know what to do or how to do it, it is that you are able to tamp down the emotions and anxieties that get in the way of seeing the world as it is. You can see through them, and that will see you through.

Knowledge, however, is non-rival.

Mi llamada es a los jóvenes de espíritu, sin perjuicio de su edad" dijo una vez John

A day will dawn when you will laugh at all your past efforts." Ramana Maharshi

We do learn from experience and may not make the same mistakes again, but there is a whole new pickle jar of fresh ones just lying in wait for us to trip up and fall into. The secret is to accept this and not to beat yourself up when you do make new ones.

WISDOM ISN'T ABOUT NOT MAKING MISTAKES BUT ABOUT LEARNING TO ESCAPE AFTERWARD WITH OUR DIGNITY AND SANITY INTACT.

The best thing is that if you get a lot of mistakes over and done with early on in your life, there will be less to learn the hard way later on. And that's what youth is all about, a chance to make all the mistakes you can and get them out of the way

This has to be a Rule because there can be no choice here. We have to accept that we are the way we are—the result of everything that has happened. It all just is.

Wisdom isn't about not making mistakes, but about learning to escape afterwards with our dignity and sanity intact.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

That great human brain is nature's most frightening product. But it is simultaneously nature's best, most hopeful gift. If we are cursed with a demonic male temperament and a Machiavellian capacity to express it, we are also blessed with an intelligence that can, through the acquisition of wisdom, draw us away from the 5-million-year stain of our ape past. Intelligence is something we are familiar with, an old book, and old friend.

We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unravel this. We honour it by letting it be that way forever." The quote of a grandmother explaining The Great Mystery of the universe to her grandson.

The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say." Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

Teachings come from everywhere when you open yourself to them. That's the trick of it really, to open yourself to everything and everything opens itself to you.

We need mystery," she said. "Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility, grandson, is the foundation of all learning.