“Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.”
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“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”
“Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.”
“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.”
“Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.”
“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.”
“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.”
“This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.”
“Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.”
“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.”
“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
“The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.”
“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
“In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!”
“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.”
“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.”
“One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.”
“Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.”