Quotes About Wisdom

A veces se necesita que te den un buen golpe en la cabeza para darte cuenta de que lo que siempre has deseado no era lo que más te convenía.

Tengo que hacer la pregunta adecuada?-pregunté. Él negó con la cabeza. -No existe ninguna pregunta. Lo único que cuenta es lo que ves con tus propios ojos.

Quen said. "Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.

Mistakes can be fixed, but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

Mistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

You have to suffer and come out the other side, find compassion in the emptiness. Respond by not filling it up. It's no easy thing. It's not what we build, Uncle Austin used to say. It's what we leave alone that makes us who we are. Look around. We cannot improve this place. We can only honor it by receiving its bounty with wisdom and thanks.

God must have had a sense of humor to create us.

Every native culture in North America has myths and legends about the bear, many of them tributes to wisdom and strength. "The bear is good to talk with," say the Yupik Eskimos. "If the bear wanted to speak with you, all it needed to do was remove its mask and there beneath was a human.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

A pinch of mother is worth a pack of shaman.

It was important to get things right, especially if you were going to make sayings out of them.

by the time life gets smart enough to leave its planet, it's too smart to want to go. Because it knows it won't work. So it stays home. It enjoys its home. As why wouldn't you?

To hope without hope, which would be wise, is impossible. —MARCEL PROUST, Les Plaisirs et les Jours

and were making themselves into many things they have never been before: augmented, multi-sexed, and most importantly, very long lived, the oldest at that point being around two hundred years old. But not one whit wiser, or even more intelligent. Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since.

Some mistakes you never can make good.

The King asked his wise men for some single thing that would make him happy when he was sad, but sad when he was happy. They consulted and came back with a ring engraved with the message 'This Too Will Pass.

See Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala for a vivid demonstration of why this is true.)

From the road he wrote bitterly to Sagredo: Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge.

Indeed, it has to be said that the percentage of old human sayings and proverbs that are actually true is very far from 100 percent. Seems it may be less important that it be true than that it rhyme, or show alliteration or the like. What goes around comes around: really? What does this mean?

She had the charisma of the sensible.

the word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water.

Of course I am old now, but there is no changing that, except by death. At least I have this day, and these days.