Quotes About Wisdom

It occurred to her that the world tells lies every day,—telling on the whole much more lies than truth,—but that the world has wisely agreed that the world shall not be accused of lying.

Era mejor evitar las heridas desde un principio que tener que tratarlas

Lo único que se necesita en la vida es seguridad, conocimiento y mucho descaro.

Dannyl nodded. "But there was only one talisman, wasn't there? Sometimes all it takes is one man and a little knowledge to do great things." The king smiled crookedly. "Yes. And sometimes it only takes one man and a little knowledge to do a great deal of harm.

Teadmatus ei ole vabandus.

The most important attribute of a magician is knowledge." He paused, then looked at each of the novices who had spoken in turn. "Without it his strength is useless, he has nothing to be skilled or talented in, despite his best intentions.

Nii et head aega õigupoolest ei olegi?» Dorrien muigas. «Ei.»

It is often wiser not to fight at all than attack before victory is sure'

To put it simply, we think books are too important to leave to writers, and we want the wisest, most experienced, most knowledgeable people on earth to be able to effectively and easily share their wisdom with the world.

This is not a small thing. You may not realize this, but the majority of the tacit knowledge that builds civilizations, the stuff that maybe isn't sexy but is foundational knowledge, has actually been lost. Why? Because no one wrote it down. They just passed it on by word of mouth.

A person who won't read books has no advantage over one who can't read books.

suppose you were an idiot

One can be both entertained and educated and not know the difference".

Torah is the study of G-d thinking.

The words and the stories of Torah are but its clothing; the guidance within them is its body.

Torah is light; it tells us the place of each thing. Shine it bright and heal the world.

Lift yourself up, plug yourself in, immerse yourself in the wisdom of Torah, and ignite the love and joy within your heart.

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

The person who doesn't read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.