Quotes About Wisdom

Give me courage. Flash. Give me tolerance. Flash. Give me wisdom. Flash.

Si no sabes lo que quieres —continuó el porte­ro—, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.

La felicità non ci lascia cicatrici da mostrare. Dalla quiete impariamo così poco.

Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart.

Which is why God has erected such a firewall between the living and the dead: because the predead always distort whatever the postalive tell them. Jesus or Mohammad or Siddharta, whenever any dead person has come back to offer some banal bit of advice, the living recipient misinterprets every word of it.

When you're 24 you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.

Do NOT die while wearing cheap shoes.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

People in France have a phrase: Spirit of the Stairway. In French, Esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party...

Conoce esa vieja frase que dice Aquellos que no recuerdan el pasado están condenados a repetirlo? Bueno, creo que aquellos que recuerdan el pasado están peor todavía.

These men and women sitting behind unlocked doors know a bigger house is not the answer. Neither is a better spouse, more money, tighter skin. Anything you can acquire, she says, is only another thing you'll lose. The answer is there is no answer.

Hayati dogru duzgun yasamak icin egitilmisiz biz. Hata yapmamak icin. Ne kadar buyuk bir hata yaparsam, o kadar kurtulma ve gercek bir hayat yasama sansim olacagini fark ettim.

You can't keep the whole Bible balanced in your head. You wouldn't have room to remember your name.

Mädchen kriegen Titten und vergessen, wie klug und mutig sie einmal waren. Auch Jungen haben ihre eigene Art von Intelligenz und Humor, aber kaum kriegen sie ihre erste Erektion, verlieren sie den Verstand und laufen die nächsten sechzig Jahre als komplett Schwachsinnige durch die Welt. Für beide Geschlechter ist die Pubertät so etwas wie eine Eiszeit der Dummheit.

It's that kind of faux wisdom. That kind of Chinese food enlightenment where you know that ten minutes after your head clears, you'll forget it all.

Lo que había visto en aquel instante ni siquiera era una montaña. No era un recurso natural. No tenía nombre. -Esa es la gran meta- dijo-. Encontrar una cura para el conocimiento.

Estos hombres y mujeres sentados detrás de puertas sin cerrar saben que una casa más grande no es la respuesta. Ni tampoco un cambio de marido o de mujer ni más dinero ni una piel más tersa. —Cualquier cosa que puedas adquirir —dice ella— es otra cosa que acabarás perdiendo. La respuesta es que no hay respuesta.

Por qué hago nada? —dice—. Tengo suficiente educación como para disuadirme a mí misma de hacer cualquier cosa. Para deconstruir cualquier fantasía. Para convencerme de abandonar cualquier meta. Soy tan lista que puedo negarme cualquier sueño.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

He watches a vid of Brin reading from the Journal of the Whills: "The truth in our soul, Is that nothing is true. The question of life Is what then do we do? The burden is ours To penance, we hew. The Force binds us all From a certain point of view." Addar fails to understand what it means, but he admits: He enjoys listening to Brin.

That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

Failure has to be illuminating: an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

I've never felt that the presence of God and the science of humankind were incompatible. It is enough for me to feel that God has given us the skills to decipher His or Her or Their universe accordingly—science is just how we map that creation, how we understand it, and how we use it to better ourselves." He told her it was okay to believe in all of it.

A good life lesson is not to take strange meat from strange people. "You're