Quotes About Wisdom

I move in the university of the waves.

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.

Que aprendeu a árvore da terra para conversar com o céu? What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

Por que en las epocas oscuras se escribe con tinta invisible? Why in the darkest ages do they write with invisible ink?

Y algo golpeaba en mi alma, fiebre o alas perdidas, y me fui haciendo solo, descifrando aquella quemadura y escribí la primera línea vaga, vaga, sin cuerpo, pura, tontería pura sabiduría del que no sabe nada, y vi de pronto el cielo desgranado y abierto.

What does old ash say when it passes near the fire? Que dice la vieja ceniza cuando camina junto al fuego?

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. ..A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Nadie mejor que mis errores

I don't know anything about light, from where it comes nor where it goes, I only want the light to light up

El pie del niño aún no sabe que es pie, y quiere ser mariposa o manzana. Pero luego los vidrios y las piedras, las calles, las escaleras, y los caminos de la tierra dura van enseñando al pie que no puede volar, que no puede ser fruto redondo en una rama.

What we know comes to so little, what we presume is so much, what we learn, so laborious, we can only ask questions and die.

We don't grow older we grow riper.

We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France)

On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c'est trop tard

It takes a long time to grow young.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

It takes a long time to become young

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

I don't really think any of us are women right when we turn eighteen, or even twenty-one for that matter. You have to live a little. I certainly tried to do that.

The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea what the answer will be.

When your crow's-feet begin to creep over your cheekbones, you are too old to be out after midnight more than twice a week. Also: If you love one man, don't flirt and drink with another. It's not rocket science

Alanis Morissette: "You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn." I think there's something pretty comforting in knowing that even the biggest mistakes I'm inevitably going to make will turn me into who I'll be at thirty.