Quotes About Wisdom

How are you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions?

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.

Oh, WHY can't boys be just sensible!

I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.

you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.

Freedom and independence were all very well, but one should not be a little fool.

Her advice is much like pepper, I think . . . excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.

Time is kinder than we think,' thought Anne. 'It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years...hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.

It is not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't

Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.

Experience teaches sense. You can't learn it in a college course.

Cousin Jimmy gave me a whole dollar on the sly last week. I wish he had not given me so much. It worrys me. It is an awful responsibility. It will be so diffikult to spend it wisely also without Aunt Elizabeth finding out about it. I hope I shall never have a million dollars. I am sure it would crush me utterly.

Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

but it seems to me there is something beyond words--any words--all words--something that always escapes you when you try to grasp it--and yet leaves something in your hand which you wouldn't have had if you hadn't reached for it.

People who haven't natural gumption never learn, retorted Aunt Jamesina, neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice. I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones. Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert in the tone that meant danger ahead. Then you would be very unwise, rejoined Anne hastily. I'm sure no life can be properly developed and rounded out without some trial and sorrow--though I suppose it is only when we are pretty comfortable that we admit it...

There is a book of revelation in everyone's life.

Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

There are lots of things that never go by rule, There's a powerful pile o' knowledge That you never get at college, There are heaps of things you never learn at school.