All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. ”

“Only ignorance excuses stupidity”

“She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?”

“Wisdom ain’t a virtue I ever aspired to.”

“I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.”

“Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.”

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

“Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.”

“We understand more than we know.”

“God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God’s Wisdom did not exist.”

“Advice,” Doña Vorchenza chuckled. “Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one’s mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you’re a nag. Give it at seventy and you’re a sage.”

“You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.Do not look at others’ bodies with envy or with superiority.All people are born with different constitutions.Never compare with others.Each one’s capacities are a function of his or her internal strength.Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”