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Wisdom Quotes
"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."
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"The ear never forgets what the soul says."
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"A little amount of secret is a great pillar of the mind. He who does not have what somebody does not know, have what everybody knows. Know your secret; keep your secret. He who knows what to keep, knows what real life is all about."
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"While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew."
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"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones."
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"The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid."
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."
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"Love and hatred are intertwined in life. They agree to disagree and they disagree to agree. When one is absent the other may become present. In what we hate most lay what we love most and in what we love most lay what we hate most."
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"This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone avails, humanistic science, the ideal of the free and beautiful human being."
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"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."
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"Come on then, I will swear to study soTo know the thing I am forbid to know- Berowne."
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"To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge."
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"That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest."
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"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."
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"Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us."
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
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"Learnin' how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them."
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"How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people."
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"As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom."
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"A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value."
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"Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes."
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"Though sincerity is a word which rings its meaning in the mind when it is mentioned, its real meaning in real sense is neither the meaning we imagine nor the spoken word but in action. Yes, it is action that determines what sincere means in reality. Real action that stands the test of time does not only give a true meaning to the word sincere in our mind and mind's eye but it also creates a real picture of who a real sincere person is in our minds and mind's eye."
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"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."
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"It's mostly during times of wilderness experience, that people are willing to accept the lessonsthat wisdom teaches."
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"Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom."
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"Every day is one step closer to the precious truth; ervery day can teach you the wonder, if you're willing to see those."
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"The first step towards obtaining wisdom is to acknowledge the sovereignty and authority of God and to be subject wholly to His will."
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"Wisdom is made complete with knowledge, understanding and good judgement."
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"I'm a witch. It's what we do. When it's nobody else's business, it's my business."
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