Quotes About Wisdom

Quit telling us to forget the past and never look back. We learned from the past, gained wisdom from the past that we apply every day in the process of living. If we forget the past, we'll forget who we are since that's where we came from.

She awakened your soul, but the soft whispers of wisdom led elsewhere. The perfect love, a true connection at a time not willing to wait.

We gain knowledge by going through life, education, reading and other learning techniques. And with this knowledge we are now able to imagine.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

Maybe ignorance is bliss, because you can work out things about people and then wish you hadn't.

Truth is overrated.

You have to get older. Growing up is negotiable.

All traditions of Buddhism stress the importance of first practicing calm abiding meditation (shamatha) and then insight meditation (vipassana).

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.

anyway. Apollo, patron of Delphi and prophesy?

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well?shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make?believe.

You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like to forget them.

Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.