The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.
The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
To know oneself and one’s end or goal in life is true wisdom—knowledge of the heart more than the head.
Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.
It took greater energy to be able to focus when heard the voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.
Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance...
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.
Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
