Quotes About Wisdom

Siempre se piensa mejor con el estómago lleno, dicen los que tienen estómago.

En serio. Haceme caso —insiste Federico—. Nunca subestimes la estupidez de la gente.

No, mi amor. Lo que pasa es cuando uno se hace el profundo parece inteligente, pero nada más.

A veces no sé si sos un genio que tiene larguísimas lagunas de pelotudez o un pelotudo que tiene mínimos chispazos de genio.

Suficientes dolores y desengaños trae la vida por sí sola —suelo decirme— como para que uno por atolondrado, por pusilánime, cargue a sus espaldas desilusiones improvisadas.

Los estúpidos se conservan mejor físicamente porque no los corroe la ansiedad existencial a la que se ve sometida la gente más o menos lúcida.

Los idiotas siempre están seguros de todo, salvo de lo idiotas que son.

Nunca. Nunca, jamás, hay que caer en manos de un boludo. Porque si uno termina en manos de un boludo significa que uno también es un boludo. Un boludo más boludo aún que el boludo en cuyas manos cayó.

The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

All gold is fool's gold.

If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone?

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.

If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it.

Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave most anytime. Not that I mind too much; I've done everything I ever wanted to do. But ... as you know, one would like to continue doing the good things over and over again, so long as there's pleasure in it.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. I

I thought I was wrong once, but I found out later that I was mistaken. (Seldom Seen Smith)

Three things my daddy tried to learn me. 'Son', he always said, 'remember these three precepts and you can't go wrong. One, never eat at a place called Mom's. Two, never play cards with a man named Doc.' 'That's only two.' 'I can never recollect the third, and that's what worries me.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

Better to idle through one park in two weeks than try to race through a dozen in the same amount of time. Those who are familiar with both modes of travel know from experience that this is true; the rest have only to make the experiment to discover the same truth for themselves.