Quotes about Wisdom

when your tongue is sharp enough to slice a rock. How

In God's plan every life is long enough and every death is timely. And though you and I might wish for a longer life, God knows better. And—this is important—though you and I may wish a longer life for our loved ones, they don't. Ironically, the first to accept God's decision of death is the one who dies.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

As I ate she began the first of what we later called "my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt.