Quotes About Wisdom

You can't be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful.

One is only young once, but in her case it was once too often.

If I teach you reading and writing, I'm warning you I've got to hit you on the head and call you bad names when you're stupid, because that's how you do teaching.

The truth is that the mountains are a place where you can find whatever you want just by looking, as long as you remember that they do not suffer fools gladly and particularly dislike those with preconceived ideas.

as the human race is incapable of learning anything from history.

It seems that age folds the heart in on itself.

He knew too much to be an optimist, and not enough to relieve his pessimism.

Neapg?žami ir mor?les principi, nevis zin?tniski fakti.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Poucos seres têm ainda um pouco depois dos vinte anos essa afeição fácil, a dos animais. O mundo não é o que a gente julgava! Eis tudo! Então mudamos de cara! Porque nos tínhamos enganado! É o que nos ficou depois dos vinte anos! Um engano! A nossa cara não é senão um engano.

Não é porque ela fosse feia, não, ela poderia mesmo ser considerada bonita, como tantas outras, mas era tão prudente, tão desconfiada que parava à margem da sua beleza, como à margem da vida.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

I came into the world with two priceless advantages: good health and a love of learning. When I left school at the age of fifteen I was halfway through the tenth grade. I left for two reasons, economic necessity being the first of them. More important was that school was interfering with my education.

Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.