Wisdom Quote by Chaim Tal — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The past teaches but never waits.”

“The future is not a promise—it’s a debt note.”

“If you hate — you give away your life.”

“The present has no mercy for self-pity.”

“The past cannot be corrected.”

“A foreign land is a desert”

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,”

“In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.”

“Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.”

“Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.”

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”