Quotes About Wisdom

Und ich lernte, stockend und langsam zwar, aber ich lernte trotz allem, was zu tun war. Lernte, was für ein Kind offensichtlich ist. Daß das Leben eine Kette von kleinen Leben ist und daß jedes einzeln für sich gelebt werden muß, Tag für Tag. Daß man jeden Tag versuchen sollte, sich an der Schönheit von Blumen und Gedichten zu erfreuen und zu Tieren zu sprechen.

embora na realidade que faz tudo valer a pena são os porquês, as coisas que eu não sabia e não podia responder.

But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits.

Los buenos profesores no tiene precio. Te inspiran, te entretienen y acabas aprendiendo más de lo que esperabas...

Au trecut patruzeci de ani si pastrez inca vie in mintea mea ziua aceea. Se poate sa fiu mai batran si mai intelept, este posibil sa fi trait o alta viata, dar stiu ca atunci cand imi va veni ceasul, amintirile din ziua aceea vor fi ultimele imagini care mi se vor perinda prin minte. Inca o iubesc si nu mi-am scos niciodata inelul de pe deget. In toti acesti ani, n-am simtit niciodata dorinta sa o fac.

Les gens parlent de la vérité comme si c'était l'élixir miracle pour tous les problèmes de la vie. Je suis là depuis assez longtemps pour savoir que ce n'est pas le cas, et que parfois la vérité peut faire plus de mal que de bien.

Age doesn't guarantee wisdom, any more than age guarantees intelligence.

Un hombre puede aprender muchas cosas de la naturaleza.

There is no teaching, there is only learning' over and over.

Do you need some Tylenol? No, I'm just getting old. Tylenol can't do much to fix that.

The damage that you have inflicted heals over, and the scarred places left behind have unusual surface areas, roughnesses enough to become the nodes around which wisdom weaves its fibrils.

There are no key terms. There are no themes, no thesis sentences. There are no main ideas. Life's curriculum is infinite. Most of the interesting things we know we can't explain. Most of what we need to know we were not taught.

anthology knowledge isn't real knowledge.

I went with her to the dentist when she had her wisdom teeth out. Afterward she slept curled for a long time, a small beautiful person; there on her desk in a glass of water were the two enormous teeth. They were like the femurs of brontosauri. How those giant teeth could have fit into her head I don't know.

After a night of poison, your brain wakes up in the morning saying, No, I don't give a shit who introduced the sweet potato into North America. The damage that you have inflicted heals over, and the scarred places left behind have unusual surface areas, roughnesses enough to become the nodes around which wisdom weaves its fibrils.

I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

Reading begets reading.

Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.

some things were better, some were worse, and the only way one can ever learn to understand one's own youth is by accepting both halves of the proposition.