A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

The man who believes he can deceive the system and deceive us is definitely mentally ill.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey,' said the wizard solemnly. 'There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is...

For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted...

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end. 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves! he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

All wisdom ends in paradox.

The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

Bear gifts if you can't bear anything else.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird {the last you would have thought...

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

I once heard a man speak, who had understanding, and the promise of vision. He was called the Master of Culter.

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

Cricket Bell. I smiled into my phone. How did you get so wise?

{T}he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two.

There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000....

But I don't know what the right thing to do is; I sometimes think I know too much, I've studied too much, learned too much, remembered too much. It all seems to average out, somehow; like dust that...

Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real...

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.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.