Wisdom

"Happiness is the fragrance, not the fruit of an action."

"Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success."

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it."

"Patience is an action and a skill to be cultivated. It actually solves more problems that most other actions."

"The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginning and end of thought."

"Fear sees, even when eyes are closed."

"The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians."

"Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation."

"I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions."

"I’m surprised you haven’t come to hate humans,” Rose said with hesitation. “I mean, given all that happened to you here. I’m pretty sure assimilating wasn’t easy either. You have a sort of foreign look for an American, and Americans are notorious for their xenophobia.”Zita laughed softly. “Me? Hate humans?” She darkly shook her head. “I fought in the Midnight War for thirty years, Rosie. I know what happens when people let hate make decisions for them."

"Varzo shrugged. “My people have given them good reason to be biased. The last time you were open and trusting . . . we invaded,” she said unhappily. “Yeah,” muttered the boy just as unhappily. “But while there is good reason for caution, there is never a good reason for hatred, hmm?” He glanced at Varzo and lifted his brows meaningfully."

"I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness."

"? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them.” Margaret Bouchard"

"I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight."

"The less people know, the more they talk. The less people understand, the more they try to explain."

"The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong. The young man then quoted with approval what Socrates had said on learning that the Delphic oracle had proclaimed him the wisest man in Greece. 'If I am the wisest man,' said Socrates, 'it is because I alone know that I know nothing.' The implication was that I was very foolish because I was under the impression I knew a great deal. Alas, none of this was new to me. (There is very little that is new to me; I wish my correspondents would realize this.) This particular theme was addressed to me a quarter of a century ago by John Campbell, who specialized in irritating me. He also told me that all theories are proven wrong in time. My answer to him was, 'John, when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

"Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)"

"What I have sought is to understand what has been said."

"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams."

"What is not worth understanding is not knowing."