Quotes About Wisdom

He should have risked more. It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough.

He had a love affair with photosynthesis. He could talk about moss for an hour. He said that plants carried wisdom humans would never be around long enough to understand.

Grandfather, Omeir thinks, already I have seen things I did not know how to dream.

It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones," Rex says, "and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up." Who says such things? And still Zeno steals glances: Rex's mouth, his hair, his hands; there is the same pleasure in gazing at this man as in gazing at a fire.

We all grew up before we we're grown up.

What a fool I was. What was this hunger that drove me to seek more than what I already had?

So many words! It would take seven lifetimes to learn them all.

Ce n'est pas la réalite.

You needn't have it memorized, dear. That's what the library is for.

Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.

In much wisdom is much sorrow, and in ignorance is much wisdom."]·

In much wisdom is much sorrow, and in ignorance is much wisdom.

GUARDIAN #2: Though it will seem simple at first, it's actually quite complicated. GUARDIAN #1: No, no, it will seem complicated at first, but it's actually quite simple. GUARDIAN #2: Ready, little crow? Here's our riddle. "He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this.

He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this—that he knows nothing yet.' "]·

Então, crianças, como o cérebro, que vive sem uma centelha de luz, constrói para nós um mundo cheio de luz?

Staro?ytno?? wymy?lono, by by?a chlebem bibliotekarzy i nauczycieli.

Rozgotuj do samych koÅ›ci sÅ'owa, które ju? znasz, a zwykle na dnie garnka znajdziesz wpatrzone w ciebie oczy staro?ytnych.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones," Rex says, "and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you.

He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this -- that he knows nothing yet.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones and usually you will find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing.

Firelit rooms lined with books - these are the places in which important things happen.