Quotes About Wisdom

liquor teaches you to confuse the means with the end

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Poate c? au avut dreptate când au pus dragostea în c?rÈ›i, se prea poate ca ea s? nu poat? exista în alt? parte.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said.

An old man is never at home save in his own garments: his own old thinking and beliefs; old hands and feet, elbow, knee, shoulder which he knows will fit.

They continued to jeer at him, but he said nothing more. He leaned on the rail, looking down at the trout which he had already spent, and suddenly the acrimony, the conflict, was gone from their voices…they too partaking of that adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority. I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue…

confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever touches.

Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean.

Learn us all the refinement and education that there's a better use for the mouth than running private opinions through it.

and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

So this is love. I see. I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them.

It's a curious thing how no matter what's wrong with you, a man'll tell you to have your teeth examined and a woman'll tell you to get married.

Because a fellow can see ever now and then that children have more sense than him. But he dont like to admit it to them until they have beards.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.

a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

sardonic cerebral pity of the intelligent for any human injustice or folly or suffering

Man the sum of his climatic experiences

But then, in the eyes all of them look like they had no age and knew everything in the world, anyhow.

He…who had not waited for Time and its furniture to teach him that the end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

The somebody you was young with and you growed old in her and she growed old in you, seeing the old coming in and it was one somebody you could hear say it don't matter and know it was the truth outen the hard world ad all a man's grief and trials.