Quotes About Wisdom

The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.

Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens— wise person. But we have been described in many other ways. Homo narrans, juridicus, ludens, diaspora: we are storytelling, legal, game-playing, scattered people, too. True but incomplete. That old phrase has the secret. We are all, have always been, will always be, Homo vorago aperientis: person before whom opens a vast & awesome hole.

The reading rooms were large and quiet. Their windows were filmed in dust and desiccated insects, and seemed to age the light falling across the communal tables and the volumes in scores of languages.

As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.

Oh, believe me, I know the story," he said. "It's a crutch, isn't it? It's a fairy tale. For the weak. It's stupidity. See

It's not an intellectual mistake.

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.*

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as the hollow mountain returns all sounds.

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.

Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction.

The best soldiers are not warlike.

The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream.

The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.