Quotes About Wisdom

One to whom books are as strangers has not yet learned to live. He is a solitary, though he dwell amid a vast population. On the other hand, he to whom books are as friends possesses a Key to the Garden of Delights, where the purest pleasures are open for his entertainment, and where he has for his companions the master minds of all the ages.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

Surrender is essentially an operation by means of which we set about explaining instead of acting.

interpretando como estupidez lo que era un rasgo de la bondad de su alma.

La bella Antigüedad fue siempre venerable; pero no creo en absoluto que ella sea admirable. Veo a los antiguos, sin doblar las rodillas; son grandes, es cierto, pero hombres como nosotros.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Watch it now. You're taking liberties. Don't make things any worse than they are. Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

This is the real article. It is double-rectified busthead from Madison County, aged in the keg. A little spoonful would do you a power of good.' 'I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.' 'Oh, you wouldn't, would you?' 'No, I wouldn't.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

Furthermore, plot, as JG wisely put it, is the storyteller's equivalent to the philosopher's argument; its importance lies in it being an interpretation (one based on causation) of why the world works the way it does.

The true leader must always be able to disillusion." —NO RUSTY SWORDS

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up.

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

In the book of life, the answers are not at the back.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.