Quotes about Wisdom

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

The past makes a good bishop but a poor king." "What does that mean?" I said. "It means that it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promise.

The pages continue to turn, and every day I'm a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few - but not as many as you might think. If it hadn't been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

Beware the stranger offering gifts, as true for man as it is for fish

Life's book is written on the heart.

Never trade what you love for what's behind curtain B. Never.

All gold does not glitter.

people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.