Quotes About Wisdom

En la vida hay que cometer inevitablemente todos los errores en primera persona, pero la literatura nos permite embellecerlos con aciertos ajenos...

El sabio —es decir, el hombre libre que sabe lo que de veras necesita— siempre preferirá vivir en la ciudad entre sus semejantes que solitario en la selva o en lo alto de un monte, sin más compañía que algún oso.

Pues bien, quizá la felicidad tenga que ver también con la habilidad o la sabiduría para retrasar el máximo tiempo posible esta desgana de vivir.

De modo que parece prudente fijarnos bien en lo que hacemos y procurar adquirir un cierto saber vivir que nos permita acertar. A ese saber vivir, o arte de vivir si prefieres, es a lo que llaman ética.

Del deporte, Camus aprendió que la pelota nunca viene hacia uno por donde uno espera que lo haga: eso

quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea' – TURKISH PROVERB

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement,' Gloria had said. 'It's the sum of all your judgements that counts.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

There are five [rules of wisdom] in all. Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first.

A grain of knowledge with the dawning of the day is a breakfast of the mind.

You may have come on no bicycle, he said, but that does not say that you know everything.

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity...

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before I go to bed. If my mother were to come in during this process and say, 'Turn off that light. It's late,' I with a lifted finger and broad bland beatific expression, would reply, 'On the contrary, I answer that the light, being eternal and limitless, cannot be turned off. Shut your eyes,' or some such thing.

The first product of self-knowledge is humility.

Most things are beyond me, Block said. I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood

The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.

She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.