Wisdom Quote by Lawrence Nault — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“When rivers are dammed, so too are the stories they carried.”

“Grief is the echo of love refusing to vanish.”

“Progress without humility is just destruction in disguise.”

“You cannot rush a tree into bloom. And you cannot force a soul to heal. Time is not a threat—it’s a companion.”

“The silence of a forest teaches more than a thousand lectures.”

“When we guard our hearts too tightly, we mistake safety for solitude.”

“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.”

“Ego is diametrically opposed to gaining wisdom.”

“Speed of execution often trumps perfection of plan.”

“The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.”

“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”