Quotes About Wisdom

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." —ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince If

Por lo general el exceso de sentimiento prueba que hay falla de desarrollo de la inteligencia

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.

If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?

Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.

He said I was bein hard on myself. Said it was a sign of old age. Tryin to set things right. I guess there's some truth to that. But it aint the whole truth. I agreed with him that there wasnt a whole lot good you could say about old age and he said he knew one thing and I said what is that. And he said it dont last long. I waited for him to smile but he didn't. I said well, that's pretty cold. And he said it was no colder than what the facts called for. So that was all there was about that.

I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human. I want to be as old as I can be.

Because a lot of the time ever when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket people will just sort of smile and tell me I'm gettin old.

There's two kinds of people that dont ask a lot of questions. One is too dumb to and the other dont need to.

You don't know shit from apple butter.

where all is known, no narrative is possible.

There is no description of a fool that you fail to satisfy.