Quotes About Wisdom

It's very vain of you to say so then. You'd better let your teacher say it.

The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling. But

Jo has given me a splendid rule. He says, when I'm perplexed, just to do what I would wish I had done when I shall be eighty.

He must know he can't live forever Ã¢â'¬Â¦ though to hear him talk you'd think he meant to.

Pero hay un consuelo, se ahorrará un montón de problemas y sufrimientos si muere joven.

Sit down, child, said Mrs. Clow, who never got excited over anything, and so had missed a tremendous amount of trouble and delight in her journey through life.

Ä°nsanlar?n sevmedikleri ÅŸeyleri yapmalar? iyidir. A??r?ya kaçmadan tabii.

I was very sorry that i had been in a temper --- but I was sorry because it was foolish and undignified, not because it was wicked.

I don't think listening to Mr. Howard's arguments is likely to do me much harm. Mind you, I believe what I was brought up to believe. It saves a vast of bother—and back of it all, God is good. The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling.

La vie est riche et pleine ici, comme partout, si seulement nous savons apprendre à ouvrir nos cÅ"urs à sa richesse et à sa plénitude.

Do you know, that is a question I often ask myself—If I could would I go back to my old self? —and I can never answer it. I can never dare to say either no or yes. The fruit of the tree of knowledge may leave a bitter taste in the eater's mouth, but there is something in its flavor that can never be forgotten or counterfeited.

But agony is nonetheless real because in later years when we have learned that everything passes, we wonder what we agonized about.

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

Life would be dull if we hadn't a few tragedies to look back on.

And the awful joy of dreaming that he was young again, with unspoiled life before him, was so great and compelling that it counterbalanced the agony in the realization of a dishonoured old age, following years in which he had squandered the wealth of his soul in ways where Wisdom lifted not her voice.

Darling, you're terribly mistaken about it all. God doesn't make bargains. He gives... gives without asking anything from us in return except love. When you ask Father or me for something you want, we don't make bargains with you... and God is ever and ever so much kinder than we are. And He knows so much better than we do what is good to give.

I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them.

No sabes que solo los más tontos son los que hablan en serio todo el tiempo?

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,' Mrs. Morris told her. I've heard that proverb all my life, said Myra Murray, and I wonder if it's true. Perhaps the birds in the bush could sing and the one in the hand couldn't.

Pero si uno tiene grandes ideas debe usar grandes palabras para expresarlas, ¿no es verdad?

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it. Somebody else's experience can never be yours. Well, it's a funny old world.

She is good and smart, which is better than being pretty.

Don't believe in everything you see girls, and only half of what you hear.