Quotes About Wisdom

for there is no cure for love save love itself. That is the verdict of all the wise doctors who have ever practiced since the earliest times.

Orm remarked that he knew enough about men not to argue with poets concerning their respective merits;

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions

It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

I like to make use of what I know

Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.

Not everyone can see the truth, but everyone can be the truth.

A man doesn't need to fly to the sun, he need only find a patch of clean earth, and crawl there, and let the sun shine on him.

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

When one has lived for thirty years in this world and had to fight one's way through it, as I have had to do, one becomes hardened to surprises and doesn't take them too seriously.

I was wise, if you like, because I was prepared for death at any moment, but not because I had taken care of everything that was given to me to do, rather because I had done none of it and could not even hope ever to do any of it.

Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself.

?ki saatlik ya?am iki sayfal?k bir yaz?dan daha iyidir diye emin olmay?n. Yaz? yoksuldur ama daha temizdir.

Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates.

Nem todos podem ver a verdade, mas podem sê-la.

It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything.

Please, Father, let he future rest, as it deserves. If you wake it ahead of time, the only result is a sleepy-headed present. You shouldn't need your son to remind you of that.

I was wise, if you will, because I was prepared to die at any moment, but this was not because I had taken care of everything I was required to do, but rather because I had done none of it and also couldn't hope ever to do any of it.

A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open.