Real experience is knowledge

"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up...

In the lowest Hell you find ignorance. In the lowest Heaven you find shrewdness.

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly. Yes, answered Kenny, if you write them a very nice poem. What is an only goat? A lonely goat,...

Once the troublesome mind begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work. But if you can surpass those thoughts,...

"... at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was life you learned from, passion, experience. The host, a fine old...

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

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.

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

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.

. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon...

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.