All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.”

“[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”

“The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres.”

“The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.”

“So I learned then, that gold in it’s native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.”

“An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.”

“If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”

“My friend Madea has “attitude” that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn’t get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we’ve run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.”

“You never understand life until it grows inside of you.”

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

“Don’t train to be ordinary; train to be extraordinary. You have to go beyond the ordinary in order to become extraordinary. You must develop a style that works for you.”

“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.”

“When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!”

“Listen with your heart, listen to your inner voice of wisdom, listen to your dreams. You know what is right for you.”

“In school, it got so that Elijah learned to talk his way out of anything, gave great long speeches so that his words snaked themselves like vines around the nuns until they could no longer move, […].”