“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.”— Jacques Lacan, amazon.com
“We are taught to think big. Go big or go home. Be large and in charge! But I’ve never really believed in the good of that. Give me the water. Let me hibernate, burrowed deep, thin skin and all. Let everything slow: the heartbeat, the breath. Let us be small.”— Erin Loechner, designformankind.com
“It was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”— Joseph Heller, amazon.com
“You didn’t need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”— Wallace Stegner, amazon.com
“Lillian was reminded of the talmudic words: We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“Smart enough to know I have no answers. Wise enough to know I need new questions.”— nobody, twitter.com
“It is never too late for the illumination of wisdom. It does not matter how long the darkness has lasted.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“Really, don't lose sight of why you're doing it. If I could impart one piece of wisdom to people, it's that the "how" is important, but the "why" is just as important...”— Dylan Andrews, twitter.com
“There is strength in every struggle. Struggles create opportunities for you to become stronger, wiser and better.”— Kemi Sogunle, amazon.com
“People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.com