Quotes About Wisdom

Yet if salvation of the world lay solely in old men's caution, why would young people be born?

Why, if nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be!

An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

And you know all about love, Jaelen? I don't know shit, but I know I have a woman who knows all about it and I learn from her every day. I love going to class. - Parker & Jaelen

Der Herr Gott ist raffiniert aber Boshaft ist Er nicht

Dame Salome, with one of those flashes of worldly wisdom which at times emerge from very stupid well-meaning people

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?

I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

[Learning] is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust . . . never fear . . . and never dream of regretting.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

Daddy always said that days had to be embraced, enjoyed, used. Otherwise, they would multiply into months and years that would mock you from afar –

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.