Quotes About Wisdom

As Einstein said, knowledge is limited, but imagination is not.

We have to meet the world as if our ideas about it are real, but holding the knowledge that they are only ideas; to act as if we know, but tolerate the truth of not knowing.

Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).)

nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out to be full of regrets.

The older I get,' said Lilian crisply, 'the more surprising life becomes.

I know," he said in a bewildered tone. "I know youse all think I'm an ancient fuddy-duddy from the dawn of time." "Why would we think that, Dad?" said Innes. "Just because you are an ancient fuddy-duddy from the dawn of time.

Ça ne sert à rien de devenir amère parce qu'il y a des connards sur terre. S'il n'y avait pas de connards, tu ne saurais pas repérer les gens bien.

Porque um dia com leitura é sempre um pouquinho melhor do que um dia sem leitura, e eu desejo a você uma infinidade de dias maravilhosos.

But all those years . . . all those years, she told herself, got you where you are now. All those years were necessary. If you were just happy from the day you were born, how would you ever know? How would you appreciate how good life could be if it had never been crap?

read. Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days.

Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days. Now

Wie oft wohl muss einer das, was er weiß, noch einmal lernen, wieder und wieder entdecken, wie viele Verkleidungen abreißen, bis er Dinge wirklich versteht bis auf die Knochen? Reicht überhaupt eine Lebenszeit dafür aus?

How many times, he wonders, must a person relearn everything he knows, rediscovering it over and over, and how many coverings must be torn away before he's finally able to truly grasp things, to understand them to the bone? Is a human lifetime long enough? His lifetime, or anyone else's?

Sich vom Wünschen zu verabschieden, ist im Alter wahrscheinlich das, was man am schwersten lernt.

The GOLD in Golden years was identified by the sight impaired. It is actually Rust!!

Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?

It's all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don't. You don't know anything.

It's a known fact in life that you can't have everything

Nothing good happens after two a.m.

I trust that when the time comes, I will know what's best.

Whoever you should choose to partake in that enjoyment, that is your choice, and choose wisely.

A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?

Is a known fact that in life, you can't have everything

Lara Jean, promise me you won't let her get her hooks in Daddy. He doesn't know the first thing about dating in the twenty-first century, and she'll just eat him alive. He needs to be with someone mature, someone with wisdom in her eyes." I snort. "Like who? A grandma? If so, I know a few from Belleview I could set him up with.