Wisdom That Surpasses Quotes & Sayings

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children. — Julie Andrews Edwards

Descriptions and analyses of what exists are important but certainly not sufficient. We also need to understand what could be. — Michael Neocosmos

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see. — Van Morrison

Is to the original as the sphere of opinion is to the sphere of knowledge? Most undoubtedly. — Plato

Mothers-in-law know all sorts of things that husbands are too stupid to figure out. — Mindy Starns Clark

There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place. — Alanis Morissette

I accept that life is uncertain
that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing
a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty. — Elizabeth Lesser

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger. — Andrew Garfield

[L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds. — John Climacus

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. — Jodie Foster

Though there were auspicious signs that preceded and accompanied his birth, preparing the world for the majestic and kingly, the birth of Jesus itself was of the humblest peasant parentage, in an unimportant town, and in the roughest of buildings. He made a career of rejecting marks of status or privilege: he touched lepers, washed the feet of his disciples, befriended little children, encouraged women to join his entourage, and, finally submitted to crucifixion by a foreign power. Everything about Jesus spoke of servitude: if Jesus is our model of leadership there can be no avoidance of the style by pastors. — Eugene H. Peterson

People owe us nothing: they can blow through our lives, make us feel hopeful and loved, and then disappear with no explanation or apology. — Ryan O'Connell

But nerves always festered in the stillness of waiting. Left at idle, the mind could make a coward of even the bravest man. — D.J. Molles

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life. — Patrick O'Brian

Sarren is one vampire ( ... ) No matter how deadly, how terrible plans, even he cannot wipe an entire city from the face of the earth in a few days. Humans are ever resilient, and their will to live surpasses everything else. Do not lose hope, Allison ( ... ) Your hope is the reason we have a chance to stop this. — Julie Kagawa

Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights. — Amit Ray

As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black person who has been scalded with boiling water or who has burned himself with acid creams. Even the hair in their arms and necks stood out stiff and straight like the bristle of an aging hog. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

What's this new shampoo you're wearing?"
"I stole it from Margot. It's juicy pear. Nice, right?"
"It's all right, I guess. But can you go back to the one you used to wear? The coconut one? I love the smell of that one." A dreamy look crosses his face, like evening fog settling over a city. — Jenny Han

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out. — Jaron Lanier

It is a sad truth, but it is a truth, indeed, that the knowledge of the human species far surpasses their wisdom. — Michael Talbot

[G]enerosity ... is the mistress and queen that gives lustre to every virtue, as it is not hard to prove. Where could one find a man, however powerful and rich, who isn't blamed if he is mean? And who, though not appreciated for his many other qualities, doesn't earn praise by his generosity? Liberality on its own makes a worthy man; and that can't be achieved by high birth, courtliness, wisdom, nobility, wealth, strength, chivalry, boldness, authority, beauty, or anything else. But just as the rose is more lovely than any other flower when it opens fresh and new, so where liberality appears it surpasses all other virtues and increases five hundred times the qualities it finds in a worthy, upright man. — Chretien De Troyes