Quotes About Wisdom

Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so as you get older and older your face starts to show all the tiny bits of all your smiles and you look like you are smiling all the time, even when you are just thinking about what to have for breakfast. She said, also, that if you frown a lot then the frowns stick to your face instead. That way when you are old you have a very frowny face and look cross all the time and people are scared of you.

There isn't a woman I know who hasn't said they wished they'd listened to their mother… especially where the three Big Ms of women's lives are concerned: mothering, money, and men.

Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can`t.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

They were allowed to stay there on one condition, and that is that they didn't eat of the tree of knowledge. That has been the condition of the Christian church from then until now. They haven't eaten as yet, as a rule they do not.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

The love of nature comes with maturing years and is one of the few compensations for growing old.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era of darkness new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the heart of men centuries dead.

Se não tivesse sido eu, eu não saberia, e tendo sido eu, eu soube.

No entender" era tan vasto que sobrepasaba a cualquier entender - entender era siempre limitado-. Pero no-entender no tenía fronteras y llevaba al infinito, al Dios.

My old life was necessary to me because it was precisely its error that made me take up imagining a hope that, without the life that I led, I wouldn't have known.

Sin embargo, a veces adivinaba. Eran manchas cósmicas que sustituían al entender.

Facts are words spoken by the world.