Quotes About Wisdom

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.

We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

Thank you," the old man said. He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

I know now that there is no one thing is true–it is all true.

Age is my alarm clock," the old man said. "Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I though, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Coward," Pablo said bitterly. "You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish." "Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly," said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase.

Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.

Here's the reason why the peasant is wise. He's wise because he's beaten from the very start. Give him power and then you'll see how wise he is.