Quotes About Wisdom

It's wasted on dummies. (Life is). They give it to dummies and fools.

One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow.

I quit thinking long ago that all old people came to rest from the things they were out for in their younger years.

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.

Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick.

The people who come to evening classes are only ostensibly after culture. Their great need, their hunger, is for good sense, clarity, truth – even an atom of it. People are dying – it is no metaphor – for lack of something real to carry home when day is done.

Stvarna zemaljska kugla nije tako bistra, nego zamu?ena, uzburkana. Odvija se golema ljudska djelatnost. Smrt vreba. Zato, ako osje?aš malo sre?e, sakrij je. A kad ti je srce puno, šuti isto tako.

Ne biti budala možda nije vrijedno teških alternativa.

Razmatraju?i sav svoj život, uvidio je da je pogrešno postupio u svemu - u svemu. Život mu je bio, štono kažu, upropašten. Ali pošto on, kao prvo, nije mnogo ni vrijedio, nije bilo ni naro?itog razloga žaljenja. Razmišljaju?i na smrdljivoj sofi o stolje?ima, devetnaestom, šestnaestom, osamnaestom, pronašao je u posljednjem izreku koja mu se svidjela: Žalost je, gospodine, vrsta dokonosti.

what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.

Jer kad ?emo mi civilizirana bi?a postati ozbiljni? upitao je Kierkegaard. Tek pošto dokraja i temeljito upoznamo pakao. Bez toga ?e hedonizam i lakomislenost proširiti pakao na sve naše dane.

Ramona je ušutjela a Herzog je rekao: - Istina je - još mnogo toga trebam nau?iti. Ali marljiv sam. Radim na tom i stalno se osje?a napredak. Vjerujem da ?u biti u odli?noj formi na samrtnoj postelji. Oni koji su dobri umiru mladi, ali ja sam bio pošte?en toga da se izgra?ujem da bih mogao završiti život dobar kao an?eo.

Ima u tome neke mudrosti, pomislio je, kao da bi posrtanjem mogao vratiti ravnotežu, ili priznaju?i malo ludila do?i pameti. A uživao je u šalama na svoj ra?un.

Spremnost da se odgovori na sva pitanja nepogrešivi je znak gluposti.

I may be old enough for my second childhood, but at least the first is well behind me.

He was a splendid old man, only partly fraudulent, and what more can you ask of anyone?

Now I was too old to be a pupil, and Ravelstein didn't believe in adult education. It was far too late for me to Platonize. And what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.

I read the best of literature, science and philosophy

Certain expressions burn people up, and especially the expression of wisdom, which can lead you straight to the loony bin. You will have earned it!

As for Sono, she was trying to instruct him, to show how a man should treat a woman. The pride of the peacock, the lust of the goat, and the wrath of the lion are the glory and wisdom of God.

Ja kriv? Kako to misliš? - Jer si ti intelektualac, a oženio si intelektualku. U svakom intelektualcu krije se negdje budala. Vi ljudi ne znate odgovoriti niti na vlastita pitanja...

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Goethe once stated that anyone who merely increased his knowledge without at the same time showing himself what to do with it poisoned his life.

Our subject: science and religion; the boundaries of scientific knowledge, the certainty that there are other kinds of knowing.