Quotes About Wisdom

La vida siempre nos ofrece dos posibilidades: el día y la noche; el águila o la serpiente, la construcción o la destrucción, el castigo o el perdón, pero siempre hay una tercera posibilidad oculta que unifica a las dos: descúbrela. Después

Solo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo.

Porque solamente alguien que se vacía puede ser llenado de nuevo. En el vacío está la luz del entendimiento.

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it's perhaps better for a prince to learn young that looking before one steps is basic self-preservation.

Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as we please. That's the difference between us and everything else in creation.

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care: to whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how and when and where. Your loving mother, C. L. Ingalls.

A big boy nine years old is old enough to remember to mind,' he said. 'There's a good reason for what I tell you to do,' he said, 'and if you'll do as you're told, no harm will come to you.'" "Yes

All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.

Her dilemma—the eternal human dilemma—is that she wants a chance to revisit her choices with full knowledge of the future.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

Make no vows or promises in the dark. Always wait until morning. -Najdan the Assassin

Thinking that you can't protect the ones you love, you have to hope they're smart enough to save themselves.

You're a big help, Mr. I Read So Many Books.

Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

I'll regret it for the rest of my life, Rush, but I was fucking seventeen years old. We're morons at seventeen. We think everything we do is right-- that nothing has a consequence.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

I didn't know what to say to that, so i kept my mouth shut. When in doubt,shut the fuck up.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

Because everything worth having hurts.