Quotes About Wisdom

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

You should not give your whole heart to anything mortal, daughter.

like sisters everywhere. With personalities shaped by birth order, we are the keepers of each other's secrets and protectors of each other's childhood memories. We are givers and receivers of female wisdom and are constantly learning from each other.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

a lonely old man.

It's better to have loved and lost, than to live with a psycho for the rest of your life

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

The old men say the earth only endures. You spoke truly. You are right.

Thus says the LORD: Do not let the wise boast in their wisdom, do not let the mighty boast in their might, do not let the wealthy boast in their wealth; but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the LORD; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the LORD. Jeremiah 9:23–24

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. (Proverbs 16:24) A cheerful heart is a good medicine (Proverbs 17:22a)

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh. (Proverbs 4:20-22)

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

We never fully understand what we have been told until we experience it. Learning not embedded in experience is forever crippled. Unfortunately, our present society is schooled, not educated.

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders.

Knowledge is never in doubt. Wisdom is never certain.

If a plethora of learning with a paucity of teaching is an approach to heaven and a plethora of teaching with a paucity of learning an approach to hell, the devil is hard at work in our educational systems.

The wise make great use of adversity. The foolish whine about it.

The greatest writers have no purpose but to incite in the minds of each reader the highest and best thought of which they are capable.

Adam was the first man, Eve the first woman, Satan the first consultant, and God the first entrepreneur.

Pertama-tama, dengan mengetahui apa itu cinta, kita akan mengetahui Tuhan. Dan ketika kita mengetahui Tuhan, kita juga jadi tahu apa itu cinta. Itulah cinta, itulah Tuhan. Pengalaman, bukan penjelasan. Perjalanan, bukan tujuan. Pertanyaan, yang sungguh tidak berjodoh dengan segala jawaban.

Mereka yang tidak paham dahsyatnya api akan mengobarkannya dengan sembrono. Mereka yang tidak paham akan energi cinta akan meledakkannya dengan sia-sia.

Romantisme itu cuma metafora, dan metafora adalah saput yang melapisi inti kebenaran.