Quotes About Wisdom

I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.

I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, I told you so.

Laugh now, cry later.

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby...

THOU SHALT NOT CONSIDER GRAVY AND HOLLANDAISE SAUCE A BEVERAGE.

For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and that once he found it the troubles of mankind would be over. And here we are in the closing decades of the 20th century, choking on truth.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.) —SPINOZA

If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought. The thing he is trying to illuminate seems as elusive as before.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.)

never has there been an age in which so little knowledge is securely possessed, so little a part of the common understanding.

Even a mole may instruct a philosopher in the art of digging.

We must know the facts and be guided by them...nature does not forgive fools nor does she spare them the penalties of their folly

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.

Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've had just as good a life as grandfather's though not as long. You've had as good a life as any because of these last days. You do not want to complain when you have been so lucky. I wish there was some way to pass on what I've learned, though.