Quotes About Wisdom

But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.

He suspected that Duane had lived in those lofty realms of thought, listening to the voices of men long dead rising from books the way he'd once said he listened to late-night radio shows in his basement.

we so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.

Like your kind/ we usually destroy what we cannot understand

shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

To be a true poet is to become God.

He is asking us if we can truly bear hearing the story. Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

the sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Silenus's true age might be anywhere from ninety to a hundred and fifty standard years. If he were close to the latter age, the Consul knew, the odds were that the poet was quite mad. As

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives.

The steward had been more circumspect after that. He had learned - as Odysseus had learned after a certain number of years of his wanderings - that his guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.

As a flame blown out by the wind Goes to rest and cannot be defined So the wise man freed from individuality Goes to rest and cannot be defined. Gone beyond all images— Gone beyond the power of words.

are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

judiciously

Kale pe a," repeated my friend. "It is an ancient Tibetan farewell when a caravan sets out to climb the high peaks. It means—go slowly if you wish to return." And

I had long since learned that to read about the follies and scandals of the world was to desecrate the morning.

Occam's Razor: All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually the correct one. —William of Occam, fourteenth century Darwin's Blade: All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually stupidity. —Darwin Minor, twenty-first century

Natalie's father had a saying for that behavior—Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

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Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

You had a corollary to Occam's Razor," persisted Syd. "I think it went—'All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually stupidity.

One of my favorite things was from the Tattireeya Upanishads. It goes—'I am this world, and I eat this world. Who knows this, knows.

habría dicho Quirón

Never give up a possible advantage for a moment of ego gratification