Quotes about Wisdom
Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story
— Barbara Kingsolver
That hand looked a hundred years old. Knuckles and gristle.
— Barbara Kingsolver
A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing. If you get past that and grown, it's easiest to forget about the misery and pretend you knew all along what you were doing.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.
— Stephen Covey
As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power that flows from a solid, unchanging core, you have the foundation of a highly proactive and highly effective life.
— Stephen Covey
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
— Stephen Covey
Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
— Stephen Covey