Quotes About Wisdom

gli scossoni della vita aiutano a capire che la vicinanza quotidiana e un'abitudine vecchia di anni sono quanto di significativo e poetico – nel senso autentico e sommo del termine – tiene insieme due persone che hanno camminato l'una accanto all'altra dalla giovinezza ai capelli bianchi.

He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.

When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to hide my head on your knees; I want you to be strong and wise; I want you to protect and defend me. I'm not always strong in spirit, Vitya – I can be weak too. I often think about suicide, but something holds me back – some weakness, or strength, or irrational hope.

Así es el tiempo: todo pasa, sólo él permanece. Todo permanece, sólo el tiempo pasa. ¡Qué ligero se va, sin hacer ruido! Ayer mismo todavía confiabas en ti, alegre, rebosante de fuerzas, hijo del tiempo. Y hoy ha llegado un nuevo tiempo, pero tú, tú no te has dado cuenta.

There is only one truth. There cannot be two truths. It's hard to live with no truth, with scraps of truth, with a half-truth. A partial truth is no truth at all. Let the wonderful silence of this night be the truth, the whole truth... Let us remember the good in these men; let us remember their great achievements.

But once, when she was singing his praises, her mother interrupted 'No, no, I've seen too many young people like that - both when I was a student in Petersburg and when I was in exile in Siberia. They just don't know how to reconcile love of humanity and love for an actual person.

Un giorno che Å trum le aveva detto qualcosa a proposito dell'eterna giovinezza d'animo di Aleksandra Vladimirovna, Ljudmila era sbottata: «È vecchia ed egoista, altro che giovane». «Non è egoismo, il suo. La nonna è una populista» aveva detto Nadja, aggiungendo: «E i populisti sono brava gente, ma con poco cervello».

Me and my dad talk about important things. Things like truth and what it means to be free. Dad says books can help you. Not every book is true, he says, but the more you read, the easier it is to figure out for yourself what is true.

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

My grandmother and all those other elders from the past kept themselves busy until they could no longer move or until they died.

Stories are gifts given by an elder to a younger person. Unfortunately, this gift is not given, nor received, as often today because many of our youth are occupied by television and the fast pace of modern-day living.

Her friend had seen eighty summers, she, seventy-five.

We have learned much during our long lives. Yet there we were in our old age, thinking that we had done our share in life. So we stopped, just like that. No more working like we used to, even though our bodies are still healthy enough to do a little more than we expect of ourselves.

It's always helpful to learn from those who have already been Where you're about to go.

We have the answers, all the answers; it's the question we do not know.

All these great biz leaders know one thing — nothing interesting can come out of your brain that you don't put in first. Having a natural curiosity and thirst for learning separates the good from the great in our experience. Happy reading!

read Margaret Heffernan's book Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril and Liz Wiseman's Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. To

Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can't remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt.

Without questions there are no answers. And without answers no truth, no progress, no future.

The clever globe-trotting fox learns many things about the world, the local burrowing hedgehog only one: the essential truth that people are people, and learning how to understand and serve them begins at home with those one sees and speaks with face to face.

Victor Davis Hanson

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.