Quotes About Wisdom

No man ever steps in the same river twice, For it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.' – attributed to the ancient Herakleitos

He took a meditative puff on his stogy, and informed himself that time was a funny thing. Old Man Time just walked along, and he didn't even blow a How-do-you-do through his whiskers. He just walked on past you. Things just change.

Another interesting fact is people become more intelligent as they age, gaining about one IQ point every ten years. Against the stereotype, it's not all downhill after forty. There is hope for me

Having gray hair doesn't matter but having gray matter matters.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time

There studious let me sit,And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Because, what I am trying to say—what I was thinking in the car from Antwerp last night—good doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions. Scary idea!

you should never get a person's name tattooed on you, because then you lose the person. I was too young to know that when I got the tattoo.

I see you are philosopher by nature.

I'd realized that laughter was light, and that light was laughter, and that was the secret of the universe.

Tuve la revelación de que la risa era luz, y la luz risa, y que ese era el secreto del universo.

Tenemos el arte para no morir de la verdad.   NIETZSCHE

doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. —PLATO, Republic, BOOK II

One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

I believe that it is better to know one book intimately that a hundred superficially

What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially." ? Donna Tartt, The Secret History

my diddy said it was something wrong with any man that'll sit down in a chair and read a book.