Quotes About Wisdom

The secret to a happy life is to accept change gracefully.

7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do you know not now; but you shall know hereafter

It's what you learn after you know it all that's important.

We made too many wrong mistakes.—Yogi Berra

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.—Buddha

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.— Colin Powell

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.—George Bernard Shaw

mavourneen. They figured most of it out long ago.

So a person who is truly humble recognizes both his capabilities and his limitations.

it was said those who supped with the devil should have a long spoon.

take it to my clever friend shortly, then

Consider Augustus's motto. Hurry more slowly.

would savor this mortal life while I had it, learn and experience all I could. And when it ended, I would take what I had learned and be a more excellent god and make the world better.

I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Robert Heinlein says in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel that the only things worth studying are history, languages, and science. Actually, he adds maths, but honestly they left out the mathematical part of my brain.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

A veces me siento como si los libros fueran lo único que hace que valga la pena vivir

Plato didn't have as much experience of humanity as he needed when he wrote a book like the Republic,' Socrates said. 'Perhaps nobody does.

if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad.

Give me the good for which I do not know to ask,

If I'm stuck in bed it's not unusual for me to read half a dozen books in a day. I know I'm not going to live forever, I know there are more books than I can ever read. But I know that in my head, the same way I know the speed of light is a limit. In my heart I know reading is forever and FTL is just around the corner.

Mal que em minha vida aprontei, foi numa certa meninice em sonhos – tudo corre e chega tão ligeiro –; será que se há lume de responsabilidades? Se sonha; já se fez...

Sei que estou falando demais, dos lados. Resvalo. Assim é que a velhice faz.

Melhor um pássaro voando do que dois na mão!... Eis a versão do provérbio, para uso dos fortes, dos capazes de ideal... - É a versão dos otários, também.