Quotes About Wisdom

there are countless ways to live upon this tremendous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrialized, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one wrong way

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Is this blasphemy, my lord? I think not. Those who crafted me, be they gods or demons, crafted this mind that shapes my resistance to their schemes. Surely they were wise enough, at the wheel where I was thrown, to anticipate future resistance in the heart they were abuilding.

Is that what love is?" "I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke, my friends. The soul is the punch line.

nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Someone once commented that I have a great thirst for knowledge, to which I replied, what the hell? I'll drink anything.

When it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Yedi cücelerin tek t?raÅŸ olan? Ahmak't?. Bu bize, t?raÅŸ olmaktaki bilgelik hakk?nda bir fikir verebilir

Kat? gerçekler hayat?n tek gerçekleri deÄŸil. Pek çok ve çeÅŸitli gerçekler vard?. Ä°nsan enerjisini doÄŸru odaklayabilirs, hangi gerçekte yaÅŸamak istiyorsa, belli bir noktaya kadar, onu seçmeyi baÅŸarabilirdi. Belki gerçeklerin en kat?s?ndan bile kurnaz davranabilir, onu bile yenebilirdi.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good.

Whether you need the solace of normality more than you need your unique power is a personal matter, which only you may decide. But Sissy, don't let people such as Julian Gitche influence your decision. Julian needs your thumbs, huge and murmuring like the mouths of unexplored rivers – just the way nature made them – even if he isn't wise enough to understand that he needs them.

When you blow up a major life situation, as I did on two fronts before leaving Richmond, the explosion can leave a hole in your psyche. Nature abhors a vacuum, however, and over time the crater is almost certain to fill in with new wisdom -- or fresh folly. Sometimes it can be a challenge to tell the difference.

Only the obtuse are unappreciative of paradox.

So, the scholars are tedious, the experts never see the whole truth of things, still they have their role to play.

Enlightened and endarkened. The ultimate.

I am what I it. It is what is is.

Leigh-Cheri knew better than to jump to conclusions on a Sunday.

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

but more importantly, I encountered the flesh-bound instrument of secret wisdom and cosmic love torture who was to animate my fantasies and billow the embers of my yearning for the rest of my life. Her name was Bobbi. She was eleven -- an "older woman.

Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become attached to her suffering, too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty, and walked on, kicking leaves.

I realize that you've always avoided all but the most rudimentary involvements with men, and, I might add, you've been wise.

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?