Quotes About Wisdom

To control one's own destiny takes a mastermind. To execute the plans takes a fool.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.

Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

He wished me luk. I hope I have luk. I got my rabits foot and my luky penny and my horshoe. Dr Strauss said dont be so superstishus Charlie. This is sience. I dont know what sience is but they all keep saying it so maybe its something that helps you have good luk.

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.

I wanted to know the truth, and yet I was afraid of what I might learn.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently.

It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy—about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.

To control one's own destiny takes a mastermind. To execute the plans takes a fool.

what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?" "If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

Antes, riam de mim, desprezando-me por minha ignorância e estupidez; agora, eles me odiavam por meu conhecimento e compreensão.

Cuando le dije que no sabia pensar me dijo intentalo. Mientras tenia las bendas en los ojos intente pensar. No paso nada. No se en que pensar. Alomejor si se lo pregunto me dira como tengo que pensar aora que tengo que volberme listo. Que piensan las personas que son listas. Seguro que cosas marabillosas. Me gustaria saber cosas marabillosas ya.

She brings me things to eat and she fixes my bed and she says I was a very brave man to let them do things to my hed. She says she woud never let them do things to her branes for all the tea in china. I tolld her it wasnt for tea in china. It was to make me smart.

Ama ben zekan?n tek ba??na hiçbir anlam ta??mad???n? öÄŸrendim. Burada, sizin üniversitenizde zeka, eÄŸitim ve bilgi büyük idoller haline gelmiÅŸ. Ama ÅŸimdi biliyorum ki, hepinizin atlad??? bir ÅŸey var: Sevgi ve ÅŸefkat eli deÄŸmeyen zeka ve eÄŸitim beÅŸ para etmez.

ÖÄŸrenmek tuhaf bir olay: Ne kadar derinlere gidersem, var olduÄŸunu bile bilmediÄŸim ÅŸeylerle kar??la??yorum. K?sa bir süre önce, her ÅŸeyi - dünyadaki tüm bilgileri - öÄŸrenebilirim gibi aptalca bir hisse kap?lm??t?m. Åžimdi ise, sadece onlar?n var olduÄŸunu bilebilmeyi ve bir nebzesini anlayabilmeyi ümit ediyorum.

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie

Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light

Estranho sobre aprender; quanto mais longe eu vou, mais vejo o que nunca soube que sequer existia. Algum tempo atrás, totalmente imaginei que poderia aprender tudo - todo conhecimento existente. Agora espero apenas ser capaz de saber de sua existência e entender um mínimo disso.

Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.

There was no way to stop the sands of knowledge from slipping through the hourglass of my mind.

Boy if I get smart wont he be serprised.

She said for a person who God gave so little to you did more than a lot of people with brains they never even used.