Quotes About Wisdom

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a penciling.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand.

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,Lest you should think he never could recaptureThe first fine careless rapture!

The best way to escape His ireIs, not to seem too happy.

Therefore I summon ageTo grant youth's heritage.

Truth that peepsOver the glasses' edge when dinner's done.

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid

What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages' way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

Discernment is having the eyes to see, and the ears to hear - and the ability to feel the emotional energy that is Truth.