Quotes About Wisdom

Creí que le importaba mucho la verdad. - Y me importa, pero una virtud llevada al extremo es un vicio. Si uno no entiende que hay cosas más importantes que la verdad no entiende lo importante que es la verdad.

Ahora todo el mundo quiere ser siempre joven; lo entiendo, pero es un poco idiota.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Knowledge is the currency of the twenty-first century.

2. The unconscious mind is much smarter than the conscious mind.

guerrillas show their letters to a child because kids can often see the obvious before adults can.

Man was created as a being whose very existence is derived from and dependent upon a Creator whom he must acknowledge as such and from whom he must obtain wisdom and knowledge through revelation. The purpose and meaning of his life, as well as his very existence, is derived and dependent. He can find none of this in himself. Man is not autonomous.

Euphemism. A form of irony that makes bad things sound good—or at least not as bad. Personification. Pretending things are human: another role-playing trope. Kindergarten Imperative. Issues a command in terms of a personal need. Yogism. A foolishly wise expression.

Growing up meant admitting you couldn't have everything.

Egy magánkönyvtár a jellemanalízis kincsesbányája.

At Rainy Creek Gardens she had finally begun to realize that, no matter your age, when you looked back it always seemed that your life had passed in the blink of an eye. The past could not be changed and the future was unknowable. The residents of Rainy Creek Gardens were teaching her that the real trick to a good life was to learn to live in the present.

That's what I like about a well-educated man. If he contemplates the obvious long enough, he finally gets a clue.

I think balance is always the problem. I doubt that anyone ever gets it perfectly right. The trick is to recognize when things are tilting too far in the wrong direction and make course corrections.

Remember rule number one - stick to the truth, but don't volunteer anything... What's rule number two? See rule number one.

Since the days of ancient Alexandria libraries had stood for all the best that mankind could achieve. The very existence of libraries held out hope for the future of the human race, as far as Letty was concerned. If people had enough sense to collect and store information and make it available to everyone, perhaps they would someday have enough sense to use that wisdom to stop wars and find a cure for cancer.

Grandma always said that people don't change, at least not way down deep inside where it counts.

Nothing is true but what is never said.

Life's not what you think. It's like water – the young let it slip through their fingers without thinking. Shut your hands, Antigone, shut them tight and hold it back. You'll see – it'll turn into something small and hard that you can sit and munch in the sun.

No se debe confundir la verdad con la opinión de la mayoría.

À force de ne jamais réfléchir, on a un bonheur stupide.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

En France, on a d'abord considéré la bonté comme une forme de la bêtise, la méchanceté comme une forme de l'intelligence. Maintenant la politesse est considérée comme du temps perdu.