Quotes About Wisdom

My father died of the same thing that Edwyn had suffered... Was I too stupid--I couldn't be--to take a lesson from that? Could I trust myself? Not to make my life a lair.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Also, Emmanuel had a mop of snowy hair and a pure, remote look. These features helped him a lot in his work. Whatever you say it is bound to sound fuller and wiser if it is said beneath a layer of white hair. And with a pure look in a world running so much to dirt and antics whose trade mark is a blush, you can often make a whole career without ever bothering to open your mouth except to eat.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Ha a jelenben van egy valódi igazság, akkor azt csak az ember hordozhatja. Mert nincsen más, csak ember van.

Hiába rohadsz meg az élet nevében. Aki egyszer már megrohadt, az nem az egészséget, hanem a rohadást konzerválja magában.

A secret should be kept a secret," murmured Conan Doyle, now picking up crumbs from his plate with his forefinger. "Once it is no longer a secret, it becomes a serpent—it goes where it will.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

There is no religion higher than the truth.

And it is characteristic of the devil to be recognized too late.

One must have travelled a great deal to discover the obvious. One must have thoroughly rubbed and exhausted one's own eyes to get rid of the thousands of scales we start with...There are poets who have strived to do this...in quest of what I call the second innocence, the one that comes after knowing, the one that no longer knows, the one that knows how not to know.

Intelligence is the art of good guesswork.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.