Quotes About Wisdom

How do you know I'm mad? said Alice You must be, said the cat, or you wouldn't have come here.

Creo que si, que has perdido la cabez, estás completamente loco. Pero te diré un secreto: las mejores personas lo están. (Sombrerero).

A lot of people won't listen to old men. A lot of people are stupid.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th Century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

The key holds the truth

It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' Don't you? If you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No,' I say. 'Only untested' -page 569

Truth casts a spell of its own.

dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

When did you become a cynic?" Sam asked. Evie smiled. "When I found out I was a little girl.

Only ninnies go to Penny's.

Quick answers often lead to quick regrets.

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

I know because I read.

Read backward in order to move forward, resisters. The best part? You can find everything you need at your local library. Libraries: serving the resistance since forever. Seriously, libraries are The. Best. Don't even bother fighting me on this one. You will lose.

Si Evie había aprendido alguna verdad a lo largo de su corta vida, era que el perdón era más sencillo de buscar que el permiso. Aunque tampoco tenía intención de pedir ninguna de las dos cosas.

what we do not study and reflect upon, we are in danger of dismissing or forgetting. What we forget, we are often doomed to repeat. Our ghosts, it seems, are always with us, whispering that attention must be paid.

Jaunti, who was half Qwilleran's age, now had the gall to write a column of wit and wisdom from the Delphic heights of his adolescent ignorance.

Never before had he met anyone who knew, or cared, that it was Chesterfield who said: Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

cool koko also says Dumb animals know more about humans than dumb humans know about animals.