Quotes About Wisdom

O que a literatura faz é o mesmo que acender um fósforo no campo no meio da noite. Um fósforo não ilumina nada, mas permite ver quanta escuridão existe ao redor.

Babam?n insanlar uzun zaman ölü kalabilmeye haz?rlanmak için yaÅŸarlar dediÄŸi akl?ma geldi.

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

But I reckon Cora's right when she says the reason the Lord had to create women is because man dont know his own good when he sees it.

This was what I was chasing: not the exotic, but a broad-beamed understanding of what is what.

Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest.

I have a lot of books and books are better if you can share them.

Times is always hard for some, the old man observed.

Cliches became cliches for a reason; that they usually hold at least a modicum of truth, and the following cliche is truer than most: You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

The child saw things that were too evident, too obvious for the trained eye.

Honey," Jammer said, "you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.

Listen to your enemies,' " Bigend said, " 'for God is speaking.

He'd made the classic mistake, the one he'd sworn he'd never make.

If God made anything better, he kept it for himself.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.

Le più grandi idee sono le più semplici.

Grownups know things," said Piggy. "They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be all right—

Thought was a valuable thing, that got results.

We think we know . Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.