Quotes About Wisdom

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.

Provable truths are what we need.

Grandchildren by proxy, Cadfael reflected, might be a rare and pleasurable recompense for a celibate prime. As for old age, he had not yet begun to think about it; no doubt it had its own alleviations.

Thinking is best after prayer, but will be none the worse for a meal and a glass of wine.

There was a time when I'd hoped… But it would never have done. I was an old fool ever to think of it, and it's better this way.

There's a lot of merit in silence.

Don't jump to the conclusion that another person just doesn't get it or isn't wise enough just because he doesn't agree with you. The

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Piers took a leisurely look at Linnet. There was the beauty, sure enough. But it didn't detract from the intelligence in her eyes. And in his opinion the slightly cynical lilt in her voice just made her all the more beautiful, as if Aphrodite had been crossed with Athena.

You will not always be happy, my dear, however wise you are--I wasn't--but always take what comes to you--don't fight life, Camilla, accept it with grace...

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.

For all our penny-wisdom, for all out soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.

We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.

Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense...If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.

Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.

Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay.

Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless; all this was revealed to the dying man, as the only courageous and wise attitude possible for a man of science.

Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.

You have an immense fault which will close all doors against you: you cannot converse for two minutes with a fool without showing him that he is one.

Cet audacieux dont on s'est moqué, a des procédés fort sages, et si ses oeuvres ont un aspect particulier, elles ne le doivent qu'à la façon toute personnelle dont il aperçoit et traduit les objets.