Quotes About Wisdom

If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

No reading can be called a vice.

Hands learn. More than minds do.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

Finding Will, loving Will, had been a revelation. Like finding the other half of herself. Having his grounded wisdom to draw on when she needed it, knowing that no matter what, she had him to come home to, that his laughter was part of her world and that the passion and courage and joy he ignited in her were here to stay, had transformed her perception of herself.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.

So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.

there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy—other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington—it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty.

the amateur historian's next stop after Boy, people used to be so stupid is People: still stupid.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. The more knowledge, the better seems like the a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

we all still bask in the glow and the warmth of Mr. Franklin's rising sun." Sounds good.

Ganesh, the elephant-faced god

The things you want her to let you in on might be things you're happier not knowing.

anubhav?vas?nameva vidy? phalam. The fruit of knowledge, the fruit of vidy? is anubhava.

Fire cannot be put out with more fire.

Blind, materialistic leaders guide the blind masses, and everyone is falling into the ditch of repeated birth and death.

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.

And I dreamed down at the clouds, and thought that when I was a kid I had dreamed up at them, and having dreamed at the clouds from both sides as no other generation of men has done, one should be able to accept his death very easily.

Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument—that, friends, is real wisdom.

Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had no mother. She was conceived by the sea foam. He would say such things not because he thought I was ignorant of them but because he judged that I needed at a given moment to have my thoughts directed toward them.

It was clear that the man was no fool. But what was the use of not being a fool if you acted like this?

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice.

Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.