Quotes About Wisdom

Kindern erzählt man Geschichten zum Einschlafen - Erwachsenen, damit sie aufwachen

De hecho, somos quienes somos gracias a todo lo perdido y a cómo nos hemos conducido frente a esas pérdidas.

Y es el sentido común el que, sin lugar a dudas, nos grita desde nuestro yo interno más sabio: ¡Utilizá todo lo que tenés para redoblar tu posibilidad de llegar adonde querés!

Stories help children sleep but also awaken adults.

Vivo y aprendo, vivo y maduro, vivo y crezco.

Cuando se encuentre en un callejón sin salida, no sea idiota, salga por donde entró.

Du hast Hunger zu lernen Hunger zu wachsen Hunger zu wissen Hunger zu fliegen... Vielleicht bin ich heute die Brust die jene Milch gibt die deinen Hunger stillt... Es scheint mir wunderbar, daß du nun nach dieser Brust verlangst. Aber vergiß eins nicht: Es ist nicht die Brust, die nährt, es ist die Milch!

Il futuro si costruisce passo dopo passo, non ci sono dubbi. Ma è altrettanto certo che saremo migliori se sapremo vivere nel presente circondandoci di tutte quelle cose buone che ancora esistono, facendo buoni propositi, e avvicinandoci a tutte quelle persone impegnate alla scoperta di sé, che con ottimismo hanno imparato ad ascoltare. Solo in questo modo potremo addormentarci notte dopo notte un po' più sereni e svegliarci ogni mattina un po' più saggi.

Para escrever bem — acredito com firmeza —, é preciso ser discreto.

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

Paradise will be a kind of library

There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.

Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.

Fácilmente aceptamos la realidad, acaso porque intuimos que nada es Real

No hables a menos que puedas mejorar el silencio.

I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything.

What is a book? A book seems, like a picture, to be a living being; and yet if we ask it something, it does not answer. Then we see that it is dead.In order to make the book into a living thing, he invented—happily for us—the Platonic dialogue, which forestalls the reader's doubts and questions.