Quotes About Wisdom

Evelyn leaned out her window and calmly said, "Let's face it, honey, I'm older than you are and have more insurance than you do," and drove away.

See what I mean? She thinks she sees all kinds of things out in the yard. Last week it was flying turtles." She walked over and picked up his dishes. "I'm not sure if it was that fall she took a while ago or just her age; she's older than God.

When you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.

taste doesn't cost a dime, but if you don't have it, you can't buy it for a million dollars

Marry a nearsighted man and you'll never look old.

I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles." PACKAGE FOR ALICE POINT CLEAR, ALABAMA PETE THE MAILMAN WALKED TO SOOKIE'S DOOR AND KNOCKED JUST AS Lenore was coming up the stairs with a sack of B & B pecans she had picked up for Sookie.

After centuries of bemoaning the fact that the young are too rebellious and disrespectful, the problem today, it appears, is that they are not rebellious and disrespectful enough. They aren't willing to challenge conventional wisdom, neither the liberal pieties that offended Allan Bloom nor the conservative ones that gall Deresiewicz. After having been pilloried for trying to destroy the bourgeois order in the 1960s and 1970s, the youth are now scorned for being too bourgeois.

wisest leaders try to understand history, evaluate the larger forces at work, and determine how much room there is for human action.

people need to listen to the experts. But the experts also need to listen to the people.

The political climate in Washington always pushes policymakers toward being "tough" rather than "soft"—which is a dangerous way to frame international affairs. The real question is, can they be smart rather than stupid?

The statesmen who led the Allied countries through war and depression knew better and resolved to give idealism a chance.

Listening is always preferable to talking. Let the other remove his veil, as my grandmother used to say. Give your response time to ripen.

In an old pond a frog ages while leaves fall

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

If that was dying, I don't want to do it again.

there something you know and

becoming slower and sweeter. She

Tú lee todo lo que puedas. Reúne cultura. Cuanta más, mejor. Para que no caigas al agujero en el que están cayendo muchos en este país.

Aprende mucho en el colegio, Txiki. Tú aprende y aprende. No pares. Si no aprendes estás perdido, hazme caso.

Mayores incordios nos esperan por el camino. También

Porque todo ha de saberse y lo que no se sabe lo imagina la malicia de los hombres.

Y son pocos y sabios quienes no se conmueven ante números, gráficos y porcentajes.

to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…

To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.