Quotes About Wisdom

Maybe books are best, because you don't have to have money to read... A man can travel all over the world and come back the same kind of fool he was when he started. You can't do that with books.

Poets are simply people who see things two ways. Like children, as if they had never seen them before. Like old men, as if they would never see them again.

no man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure; but having failed in one location and having been ejected, it is possible that in the next he will be a little wiser.

I)f you did not read when you were young, you might never catch the disease and then what would be the use of living?

He wondered how men could live till they were seventy if they endured such passions as he had known that fifteenth summer, and although he knew many things...he did not even guess that men are able to live because slowly, one by one, they snuff out the fires of spring until only embers burn in white dignity, in loneliness, and often in cold despair.

seem to understand. With three walled

with a piece of frontier advice long tested in the crucible of practicality:

I am sure old men forget what it was to be young and to be wholly in love. Not even I can remember those breathless moments. That's why they give old men important jobs and big salaries and orchestras to lead. To pay us back for the terrible loss we have sustained.

That's how it gonna be all your life," Julia Cater told her son, and she was preaching old black wisdom, for through the generations that was how black women enabled their sons to survive so that they could grow into black men. Hiram

with that insight which comes to a man only once or twice in his lifetime, allowing him to see ahead into the structure of the years.

Remember the story of what your god Yahweh said not far from here? 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature. Yahweh seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looketh on the heart.

Damn, you know books and sports on television. You're a triple threat." "Those are the sorts of things that keep you alive when you pass seventy." In mild

Wrong decisions, Jakob, are never inevitable. A wise man can always turn back from a precipice.

James A. Michener

but she possessed what was better than beauty: an absolutely realistic evaluation of life.

From that moment on I have never handled a gun. I have found even the shooting of a rattlesnake abhorrent, and I recommend to all my descendants that they keep away from firearms, for I have found that they do far more damage to good men than to evil.

but on this night he proved that he could do something that none of his companions could: he could look at the evidence planted in the universe and from it derive a new concept, and a greater thing than this no mind can accomplish.

Never be ashamed of anything! If you've made a fool of yourself, just don't do it again. But being ashamed is only being a fool twice for the same reason.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner. It is much better to confine yourself to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it... but those who remember the future can plan ahead for the weather.

Aceia care uit? trecutul sunt blestema?i s?-l repete, dar cei care-?i amintesc viitorul pot s? se preg?teasc? pentru orice."

Haosul poate fi ordonat, fl?c?rile pot fi stinse, imperiile se pot ridica È™i destr?ma. Lucrurile adev?rate vor r?mâne mereu È™i te vor îndruma întotdeauna s?-È›i atingi È›elurile."

You are who you learn from. Choose wisely.

As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss