Quotes About Wisdom

Don't be ignorant your whole life.

Ultimately there is nothing to know and no one to know it.

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.

Information and survival will ultimately be the same thing.

Because he knows what perhaps you do not. That the past cannot be mended.

Let me put it to you this way. As the vicar said to the choirboy. To the seasoned traveler a destination is at best a rumor.

I thought if I lived my life in the strictest way I knew how then I would not ever again have a thing that would eat on me thataway. I said that I was twenty-one years old and I was entitled to one mistake, particularly if I could learn from it and become the sort of man I had it in my mind to be.

There's data in the world available only to those who have reached a certain level of wretchedness. You dont know what's down there if you havent been down there.

Aldrig mer är en lång tid. Men pojken visste det han visste. Att aldrig mer inte är någon tid alls.

Yo creo que la verdad siempre es simple. Y lo es por fuerza. Tiene que ser lo bastante simple para que la entienda un niño.

I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human.

He said that far from making men reflective or wise it was his experience that death often leads them to attribute great consequence to trivial things.

He probably doesnt get it that if you scratch from the menu everything that's hard to swallow it's going to make for a pretty lean lunch.

Ya?ad?klar? derin sularda her ?ey insandan daha ya?l?yd? ve esrarl? ?eyler m?r?ldan?rlard?.

What do you think the old man would of done? You know what he'd of done. Boyd took the stem from his teeth and threaded it through the buttonhole on the pocket of his ragged shirt and looped and tied it. Yeah. He aint here to say though, is he? I dont know. Someways I think he'll always have a say.

Di tutto ciò che è uscito dalle sordide gole degli anziani, dai vecchi libri ammuffiti, non ho salvato una parola. Ho sognato che camminavo con mio nonno sulla riva di un lago scuro e i discorsi del vecchio erano pieni di incertezza. Ho visto come tutto ciò che è finto si stacca dai morti.

A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and never had nothin. Seems like a old man'd be allowed his rest but then he comes to find they's things you have to do on account of nobody else wants to attend to em.

nessuna creatura può imparare ciò che il suo cuore non è predisposto ad imparare

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done. Where'd you hear that at? I dont know.

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. By

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

You dont want to be the youngest. I can tell you right now. There aint no percentage in it. They

La vanidad del hombre podrá ser infinita pero su saber sigue siendo imperfecto y por más que valore sus juicios llegará un momento en que tendrá que someterlos al arbitrio de una instancia superior. Y

Vuestro máximo deseo es que os cuente algún misterio. El misterio es que no hay ningún misterio.