Quotes About Wisdom

Actions born of contemplation are wiser than those made in quiet desperation. If all that's true, and I feel it is, then I have grown some in these 61 years. I have learned and become a better person. And from that maybe it's the years ahead that will be the richest of my life. A quiet man moving forward, gladly beyond all expectation.

Jimmy used to say we're a Great Mystery. Everything. Said the things they done, those old-time indians, was all about learnin' to live with that mystery. Not solving it, not comin' to grips with it, not even tryin' to guess it out. Just bein' with it. I guess I wish I'da learned the secret to doing that.

To paraphrase an old teaching, I'm learning to want nothing but to desire everything and to choose what appears. Life is easier that way, more graceful and I AM glittery—but from the inside out.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...

Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']

Richard Webster

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Du sollst das Gute in dir zum Meister setzen und das Nichtgute zum Jünger.

He is prudent who can listen in silence, who can take advice so as to gain a more precise, clear, and complete knowledge of the facts.

Bible verses remain true, even if the devil quotes them.

Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, 'Good morning, theologians—you wake and sing, but I, old fool, know less than you and worry over everything, instead of simply trusting in the heavenly Father's care.

Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes" (Matthew 11:25). Why would this be? I believe that God desires that His message not be perverted, this message which has eternal significance. Intellectuals are seldom capable of conveying a message just as they have received it, without giving it a personal twist; whereas the simple, ignorant people transmit it faithfully.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.

The place had filled him with a sense of wisdom hovering just out of reach, of unspeakable grace prepared and waiting just around the corner, but he'd walked himself weak down its endless blue streets and all the people who knew how to live had kept their tantalizing secret to themselves.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.

When you're talking, Steve," Jock MacKenzie had told him once, "and I don't care who it's to or what it's about, the important thing is knowing when to stop. Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

I'm sure it's probably a mistake to try and draw your own conclusions from the things you read in books. Who knows?

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.