Famous Quotes

"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

"Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be."

"There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart."

"wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."

"But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil."

"Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly."

"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."

"Wise? No, I simply learned to think."

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."

"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."

"Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"

"I'm not young enough to know everything."

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."