Quotes About Wisdom

For this is wisdom—to love and live,     To take what fate or the gods may give,     To ask no question, to make no prayer,     To kiss the lips and caress the hair,     Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow,     To have and to hold, and, in time—let go.

mad with common sense

The span of his seventy-five years had acted as a magic bellows—the first quarter-century had blown him full with life, and the last had sucked it all back.

I talk with the authority of failure.

Tengo treinta años -dije-. He rebasado en cinco años la edad de mentirme a mí mismo y llamarle a eso honor.

He used to think that he wanted to be goos, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

Az ember vagy megért mindent, vagy mindent magától értetÅ'dÅ'nek vesz.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes. In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a streetlamp, he used to think that he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit that in.

Vich Deelish   My heart is in the heart of my son     And my life is in his life surely   A man can be twice young     In the life of his sons only.

It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before.

Age will go     Back to the old—       For all our tears         We shall not know.

You used to say a man knows things and when he stops knwing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

This isn't just an epigram – life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

But all I know – the tremendous importance of myself to me, and the necessity of acknowledging that importance to myself – these things the wise and lovely Gloria was born knowing, these things and the painful futility of trying to know anything else.

De tudod, az a helyzet, hogy a tudás olyan végtelen… és minél többet tud az ember, annál több tudnivalóról szerez tudomást, ami már éppen csak hogy karnyújtásnyira van és ez így megy folyvást.

Çok içen insanlar?n yan?nda ay?k kalmak her zaman faydal?d?r. Her ÅŸeyden önce dilinizi baÄŸlar, fazla gevezelik etmezsiniz. Daha da güzeli insan?n kendi kusur ve yanl??lar?n? örtebilmesidir, nas?lsa kimsenin sizi kimsenin sizi görecek hali olmaz. Zira görseler de umursamazlar.

Há gente que diz que a inteligência deve ter criado o universo; ora, a inteligência jamais construiu um motor a vapor! A inteligência não passa de uma pequena régua que usamos para medir as realizações infindáveis das circunstâncias.

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

There is no more dangerous gift to posterity than a few cleverly turned platitudes.

Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age. As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I've managed to pick up a good education.

There's only one lesson to be learned from life, anyway, interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement. What's that? demanded Maury sharply. That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

IN MY YOUNGER and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.