Quotes About Wisdom

Es mejor tener mil enemigos fuera de casa que uno dentro. Proverbio árabe

Los libros tienen que pesar porque el mundo entero está encerrado en ellos.

Happy was not a word Nerron usually used to describe himself. It was, in his eyes, an emotional state only possible when paired with stupidity.

In books, I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come … All things decay and pass with time … all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them.

Los libros deben ser pesados porque contienen el peso del mundo en ellos

Ein Apfel?' Louis wick zurück. 'Ich rühr keine Äpfel an. Zwei meiner Tanten sind so vergiftet werden.

The strongest memory is weaker than the palest ink. Chinese proverb, Die Weisse und die Schwarze Kunst

Was ist der grö?te Schatz, den du je gefunden hast?', hatte Chanute ihn vor nich allzu langer Zeit gefragt. Jacob hatte die Schultern gezukt und ein paar aufgezählt. 'Du bist ein nog grö?erer Dummkopf als ich,' hatte Chanute geknurrt. 'Ich hoffe nur, das du ihn nicht verloren hast, wenn dir die wahre Antwort dimmert.

Take my advice Meggie: Never develop a passion you can't afford!

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them…

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. We tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be." William Goldman, The Princess Bride

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman? Solomon Eagle

Humans asked them about everything, but they usually weren't half as good at finding the answers.

Ma scusa, lo dici sempre anche tu: i libri devono essere pesanti perché dentro hanno il mondo intero.

Os mortais não entendem que a vida não é um livro que você fecha só depois de ler a última página. Não existe última página no Livro da Vida, pois a última é sempre a primeira página de outra história.

Let him alone," said Merlin. "Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come and easy-go." T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone

You think this is a trap, then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive." William Goldman, The Princess Bride

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

Everything good in the world comes from the efforts of people who came before us.

But if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant.

I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.

There's more than one way to be smart. People like my dad assume that because they're smart about being evil bastards, they're smart about everything—

He was, indeed, a governour, who had most exactly studied that book which, pretending to teach politicks, did only contain three leaves, and but one word in each of those leaves, which word was, MODERATION.

Remember, it isn't the snake bite that does the serious damage; it's chasing the snake that drives the poison to the heart.