Quotes About Wisdom

Dad says I'll understand when I grow up. He tells me that all the time now and I want to be big like him so that I can understand everything. It must be lovely to wake up in the morning and understand everything. I wish I could be like all the big people in the church, standing and kneeling and praying and understanding everything.

There are bars of Pear's soap and a thick book called Pear's Encyclopedia, which keeps me up day and night because it tells you everything about everything and that's all I want to know.

An old man dies, a young woman lives. Fair trade.

The secret to understanding Citron was that ... he knows thirty percent of what he thinks he knows

The man who does not see God may have vast knowledge of this or that section of being, but he is like a man who should know all about the eye never having seen a face.

It would be a strange God who could be loved better by being known less. Love of God is not the same thing as knowledge of God; love of God is immeasurably more important than knowledge of God; but if a man loves God knowing a little about Him, he should love God more from knowing more about Him: for every new thing known about God is a new reason for loving Him.

Truth is light too. Not to see it is to be in darkness, to see it wrong is to be in double darkness.

to clarify our notion of mystery: which does not mean a truth that we cannot know anything about, but a truth that we cannot know everything about.

What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it." —G. W. F. Hegel, nineteenth-century German philosopher

My biggest regret is being naive enough in thinking that what happened is a big enough reason to miss out on each other's live.

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

Suddenly, books are arriving every day! So many books, so little time.

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

so many books, so little time a

So many books, so little time

So many good books to read, so little time!

A mind is like a parachute. It works better when it's open!

So many books, so little time b

Çok fazla kitap, çok az zaman...

All these books and all the less time.

GÅ'upota ma pewien urok- ignorancja nie.

there's more stupidity in the universe than there are hydrogen atoms, and it has a longer shelf life

Atâtea c?rÈ›i, atât de puÈ›in timp.

A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.