Quotes About Wisdom

Con not, that thou be not conned.

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

I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as in seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.

Everything about the old man was old with the sole exception of his eyes. His eyes resembled the colour of the sea and were joyous and unconquered.

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

You learn in this war if you listen.

I wish I had a stone for the knife,» the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. «I should have brought a stone.» You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

De az okos embernek néha be kell rúgnia, hogy kibírja a bolondok között.

But I know many things I can't say.

You never look old. -The body is that which grows old. The spirit is neither older, nor much wiser.

A man must learn to recognize values.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk... that will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ---Ernest Hemingway

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.

That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

it's a big misconception: the wisdom of the old people. They don't become wiser. Just more cautious.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.

Si eso es así, hubiera preferido pasar esta última noche de una manera distinta. Pero las últimas noches nunca son buenas. No son nunca buenas las últimas nadas. Sí, las últimas palabras son buenas a veces.

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know

Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.

Strašna je ova ribetina, moram je obuzdati, pomisli. Ne smijem joj dopustiti da postane svjesna svoje snage ni onoga što bi mogla u?initi kad bi potegnula svom snagom. Da sam na njezinu mjestu, sad bih zapeo iz sve snage i povukao pa kud puklo da puklo. Ali one, hvala Bogu, nisu tako pametne ko mi koji ih ubijama, iako su plemenitije i sposobnije od nas.

You will not be nineteen always

It's not cowardly to know what is foolish. -Neither is foolish to know what is cowardly.