Quotes About Wisdom

It's easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo we are now sadder and wiser, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.

old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

He knew where his towel was.

My name?' said the old man, and the same distant sadness came into his face again. He paused. 'My name,' he said, '. . . is Slartibartfast.' Arthur practically choked. 'I beg your pardon?' he spluttered. 'Slartibartfast,' repeated the old man quietly. 'Slartibartfast?' The old man looked at him gravely. 'I said it wasn't important,' he said.

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate

just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in the closet.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it the right way.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.' 'And are you?' 'No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But, Mrs. Benson, stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.

but I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

La scienza ha raggiunto traguardi meravigliosi, certo, ma io preferirei essere felice piuttosto che avere sempre ragione.

Birinin verdiÄŸi tavsiyenin kalitesini anlamak için o kiÅŸinin yaÅŸam?na bakmak gerekir.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Esa muchacha es una de las formas de vida orgánica menos sumida en la ignorancia y menos torpe que he tenido la profunda falta de placer de no ser capaz de evitar conocer

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

but do you really think it's wise under the circumstances? I mean, here we are on the run and everything, we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us by now, and we stop to pick up hitchhikers.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. Why, what did she tell you? I don't know, I didn't listen.

that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did. "Zaphod," she said patiently

Kitaptaki bilgilerle gerçekler aras?nda önemli çeliÅŸkilerle kar??la??ld???nda, yanl?? olan taraf her zaman gerçeÄŸin kendisiydi.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Cuarenta y dos –dijo Pensamiento Profundo, con calma y majestad infinitas.