Quotes About Wisdom

No lo sé, es difícil dar una respuesta tajante que sea cierta

I hope that in the free time of old age, the wonder will return.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

A lifetime is not so many years for a person to play with.

We were fourteen, fifteen years old, and already knew the importance of silence in love.

curiosity is the greatest virtue, just as wisdom is the goal of every desire.

Qué triste destino el mío encontrarte en mi camino cuando los años blanquean mis barbas de peregrino!

A ella todo le salía, escogía bien las películas que iban a ver, los libros, los amigos, se manejaba con seguridad. Con ella eran buenas las conversaciones y buenas las comidas. Mucho más madura que las de su edad; llevarla a su lado, ahuecando el pecho, su pelo de lino alborotado, era una certeza equiparable a saber que la tierra gira en torno al sol.

Como dice Octavio Paz, la felicidad es una sillita al sol.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret — not to have given enough of ourselves.

Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build on it if I were you.

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

it is not enough therefore, simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

No es secreto: son los tiempos difíciles los que traen el aprendizaje más profundo.

People talk too much anyway. A life of talking and you say probably three good things. Accidentally.

epistemologist?

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Det var slutet för den unge, så gick Kullervo ur tiden, denne olycksfödde yngling, för att aldrig återkomma. /.../ Eftervärld, låt aldrig barnet uppfostras av onda viljor, vyssjas av förvända mänskor, vaggas fel av obekanta. Den som en gång fostrats galet, vyssjas bakvänt, vaggas illa, han blir aldrig som han borde,