Quotes About Wisdom

But the past is not less valuable because it is no longer the present. In fact, it's more important, because forever unseen.

I had learned that secrets were not always a bad thing.

Life and death are both meaningless. They happen or don't happen for reasons that have not weight, from which you learn nothing. There is no wisdom in the world. We are all fortune's fools. Here is the earth and it is so beautiful and we are so lucky to be here with one another and we are so stupid and what happens to us is so stupid and we don't deserve our stupid luck.

Verhalen zijn niet waar, maar doordat ze onwaar zijn kunnen ze waarheden voelbaar en kenbaar maken die de waarheid niet kan vertellen.

Kalbin hatalar?ndan birinin ne büyük ahmakl?k olduÄŸu anla??ld???nda, kendimizi aptal gibi hissederiz ve yak?nlar?m?za, sevdiklerimize bizi neden vakitlice kendimizden kurtarmad?klar?n? sorar?z. Ancak bu, aram?za kimsenin giremeyeceÄŸi bir düÅŸmand?r.

Apa gunanya dongeng-dongeng itu? Hidup bukanlah sebuah buku cerita atau toko lelucon (hal.18)

Bir ÅŸey tabi hiçbir ÅŸey den çok, çok daha iyidir, yar? memnun geçirdiÄŸimiz ömrün sonunda kar??m?za ç?ksa bile.

The more I see of the West, he says, the more I realize that the best things in life come from the East.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

La moderación también está entre nuestras tradiciones, Begum. Come dos bocados menos del hambre que tengas: mortificación, la senda del ascetismo.» Qué hombre: conocía todas las respuestas, pero no había manera de tener con él una buena pelea.

Cuidado con el hombre de acción que por fin desea progresar por medio del pensamiento. Un poco de pensamiento es algo peligroso.

Alles is strategie. Dat is de wijsheid van de spin. Alles is voedsel. Dat is de wijsheid van de haai.

I'm too young to die. The fallacy of youth. Death had never cared about the ages of those it claimed.

Never make love to a woman who is bad with stained glass," the emperor said solemnly, giving no indication of humorous intent. "Such a woman is an ignorant shrew.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

here is so particular wisdom in the East, all human beings are foolish to the same degree.

In the evenings they sat in pools of yellow light, books on their laps, lost in words. They looked like figures in a Rembrandt painting, Two Philosophers Deep in Meditation, and they were more valuable than any canvas; maybe members of the last generation of their kind, and we, we who are post-, who come after, will regret we did not learn more at their feet.

The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

I told you so',was Abdullah Noman's favourite song,because he was cursed with the curse of knowing too much and the double curse of being unable to avoid pointing this out even though it made Firdus Begum threaten to hit him on the head with a stone.

Emerson said, "To the dull mind, all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light." The illumined mind has shifted to the light.

Every one of the world's great religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.

You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.

On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.

As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never best found there, and it is subverted, time and again, by ancient savagery and superstition.