Quotes About Wisdom

It never paid to underestimate children.

I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.

Warraner looked pleasantly surprised at the question, like a Mormon who had suddenly found himself invited into a house for coffee, cake, and a discussion of the wit and wisdom of Joseph Smith.

They were so old, and so strange, that they had found a kind of existence independent of the pages they occupied.

Suo?avamo se s onima s kojima se moramo suo?iti i do?i ?e trenuci kad budemo morali djelovati za ve?e dobro, ?ak i ako postoji rizik za nas, ali ne trebamo nepotrebno izlagati život opasnosti. Imamo samo jedan život i možemo dati samo jedan život. Nema ništa divljenja vrijedno u tome da ga izgubimo kad je situacija beznadna.

Perhaps it was just a function of realizing, as the years went by, how little he really knew about very much at all.

borderline simpleton.

Anna shook her head and, for a moment, she seemed much older than before. She may have been a girl in form, but she had existed for far longer than her appearance suggested, and in that dark place she had learned wisdom and tolerance and forgiveness.

gags old before they were told

he had more days behind him than ahead.

gazing upon him with eyes that were too old for her face.

clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier

He believes it might have been Mark Twain who said that history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

I think we've established that her son is crazy, and crazy cancels out clever every time.

he would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books.

Quayle himself was a surprisingly elegant man of sixty winters or more. (One might equally have said "sixty springs" or "sixty summers," but that would have been inaccurate, for Quayle was a man of bare trees and frozen water.)

And the ignorant, as always, will be wrong.

Life was simpler, too, if one did not think too hard. -The Burning Soul

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

God has placed clear limits on Man's intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Life is short and the number of books is appalling.