Quotes about Wisdom

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

Not real can tell us about real.

As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking.

Such regrets are of no practical use. I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he's fifty, and even then there's still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.

It's somewhat daunting to reflect that Hell is -- possibly -- the place where you are stuck in your own personal narrative for ever, and Heaven is -- possibly -- the place where you can ditch it, and take up wisdom instead.

It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by.

Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practice their bravery.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.

They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth, not from thing to thing: books could be burnt, paper crumbles away, computers could be destroyed. Only the spirit lives forever, and the Spirit isn't a thing.

He has something we don't have, he has the word.