Quotes About Wisdom

Es un oficio bastante malo,' he repeated, 'loving me.' 'Yes. But it is the only one I have.' 'Don't you write any more poetry?' 'It was young girl poetry. Like young girl painting. Everyone is talented at a certain age.' At what age do you become old in this country, the Colonel thought. No one is ever old in Venice, but they grow up very fast. I grew up very rapidly in the Veneto myself and I was never as old as I was at twenty-one.

No," Pablo said, dipping up another cup. "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.

it is always a mistake to know an author

because I've lived through so much,I can now enjoy in everything

Fizettél nekem egy pohár sört – mondta az öreg. – Embernyi ember vagy már.

El secreto de la sabiduría, del poder y del conocimiento es la humildad

Bana bak, Billy, bir s?r vereyim sana. Ne varsa çarÅŸaflarda var, Billy. Kad?nlardan uzak dur, atlardan uzak dur, sonra durdu, kartallardan uzak dur, Billy. Atlar? seven atlar? bulur, kartallar? seven kartallar? bulur. Durdu, ba??n? çarÅŸaf?n alt?na soktu. Gitmem gerekiyor dedi Uçan Billy Turner. Kad?nlar? seven içkiyi bulur dedi William Campbell. Atlar? seven...

Ä°yiyim. Git sen. Ben biraz yataca??m. ÖÄŸleye doÄŸru kalkar?m. Ama Mr. Turner öÄŸle vakti William Campbell'in odas?na geldiÄŸinde William Campbell uyuyordu, Mr Turner da hayatta nelerin deÄŸerli olduÄŸunu bildiÄŸi için onu uyand?rmad?.

Night plans aren't any good in the morning. The way you think at night is no good in the morning.

Por qué madrugaremos tanto los viejos? ¿Será para alargar el día?

No es cobardía saber lo que es insensato. —Ni es insensato saber lo que es cobardía —dijo Anselmo, incapaz de resistir la tentación de hacer una frase.

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.

They should be rescued from ignorance." "Don't talk nonsense. Education is an opium of the people. You ought to know that. You've had a little." "You do not believe in education?" "No," said Mr. Frazer. "In knowledge, yes." "I do not follow you.

Avrei bisogno di una pietra, per il coltello» disse il vecchio dopo avere esaminato la legatura sull'impugnatura del remo. «Avrei dovuto portare una pietra.» Avresti dovuto portare molte cose, pensò. Ma non le hai portate, vecchio. Ora non è il momento di pensare a quello che non hai. Pensa a quello che puoi fare con quello che hai.

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

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 and knowing when you had it.

You cannot know about it unless you have it.

There is no friend as long as a book

In order to write about life first you must live it." ? Ernest Hemingway

His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever know, gave marvelous advice. He distilled it out of the bitter mash of all his previous mistakes with the freshening additions of the new mistakes he was about to make and he gave it with an accuracy and precision that carried the authority of a man who had heard all the more grisly provisions of his sentence and gave it no more importance than he had given to the fine print on a transatlantic steamship ticket.

One of my favorite quotes: There is no friends as loyal as a book -Ernest Hemingway

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Write the truest sentence you know.

Happiness in an intelligent person is the rarest thing I know.