Quotes About Wisdom

If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.

Madame, it is always a mistake to know an author. (p.215)

Cdo gjë mund të kalohet në këtë botë të mallkuar. Ndrydhi të gjitha ndjenjat, vdis nga brenda dhe cdo gjë do të kaloj lehtë. Vdis për së gjalli, ashtu sic bëjnë më të shumtët e njerëzve, në të shumtën e kohës. Besoj se kjo është rruga më e mire.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

You know the only thing I've ever lost is curiosity, he said to her. You've never lost anything.You're the most complete man I've ever known

For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.

Good night then. I will wake you in the morning." "You're my alarm clock," the boy said. "Age is my alarm clock," the old man said. "Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?" "I don't know," the boy said. "All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard." "I can remember it," the old man said. "I'll waken you in time.

Todo en él era viejo excepto sus ojos.

If you ever live to be as old as I am you will find many things strange." "You never seem old." "It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser." "You are wise." "No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." "Perhaps that is wisdom." "It is a very unattractive wisdom.

Fall for them, but don't let them ruin you.

Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another. -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in A Moveable Feast.

I may not be as strong as I think,' the old man said, 'But I know many tricks and I have resolution.

I have always believed that the man who begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

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

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it.

How can there be solidarity of workers with fools like you?

Yes," said Wilson. "There's that. Doesn't do to talk too much about all this. Talk the whole thing away. No pleasure in anything if you mouth it up too much.

Amit az ember leírt, az többé nem sanyargatja.

szemhatára csak a mát, a ma éjszakát, s a holnapot, és ismét csak a mát, a ma éjszakát, a holnapot foglalhatja magában, még legjobb esetben is. Ezért okosabbat nem tehet, hálásan elfogad minden percet.

Azt hiszem – gondolta –, hetven órában csakúgy elfér az egész élet, mint hetven évben; de csak ha az ember már kinÅ'tt a gyerekkorból, s ha már s hetven óra kezdetét is gazdag élet elÅ'zte meg.

Every day brings some disappointment. -No, every day brings new and beautiful illusion. But, everything that's not real in one illusion you can chop it off, like cutting with the blade of a razor.

Don't ever kid yourself with too much dialectics.

But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with? Would it not be the same in anything? Who else