Quotes About Wisdom

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Gedding old is no way to stop being young.

Invent a way not to ged old," he said. "It is a terrible goddem trick to play on someone. Gedding old is no way to stop being young.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom. Check it out: I'm twenty years old, and I'm one of the top five SS-Scrabble players in the whole state. I guess that might say more about Iowa than it says about me.

She had learned from Jakob to think of people who spoke of blessings and faith as simple and a little infirm. People who thought things happened for a reason were to be pitied. Such folk had given up their curiosity about the universe for a comforting children's story.

At first glance Bing knew that although this man might have passed for forty or so, he was much older than that. His eyes had the soft, faded look of sea glass; they were old eyes, unfathomably old. He had a long, harrowed face, wise and kindly, although he had an overbite and his teeth were a little crooked. It was the sort of face, Bing supposed, that some people would describe as ferretlike, but in profile it also would've looked just fine on currency.

Se pueden averiguar muchas cosas de alguien cuando le das por culo.

Eu ponho uma bola de gude na boca para me lembrar de ficar calado e escutar de vez em quando.

It would be a librarian.

Who says we're smart?' she asked, in a tone of playful contempt. 'We never even mastered fire. We thought we did, but you see now, it has mastered us.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of so much compressed wisdom.

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.

It'd be a mistake," Lee said. "I think maybe you have to make a few," Merrin said. "If you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make.

Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness.

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left.

You only live once but if you work it right once is enough

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

There are some things you only learn through experience.