Quotes about Wisdom

So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love.

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Love is the weapon of the wise.

Approach every difficulty as if it were sent to you at that moment and in that way to teach you something you need to learn so you can continue moving forward.

Read in your field for at least one hour every day.

The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.

Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity

But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.

While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.

One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one. Always? I ask. Always! she confirms. Good stories teach!

Everything I need is in my head, and no one can take that away.

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.