Quotes About Wisdom

Heywood Broun

That's why you must go. Why you must study many things. So you can tell them, tell the people who have forgotten everything, that for better or worse, humankind has created all of these things.

If there's one thing this world needs more of, it's thoughtful Nobles," the left hand jeered.

Ph??ng trình h? chí – Higashino Keigo _"Tò mò có ngh?a là b? kích thích b?i s? hi?u k? mang tính trí tu?. B? m?c s? tò mò là m?t t?i ác. B?i ngu?n n?ng l??ng l?n nh?t giúp con ng??i tr??ng thành chính là s? hi?u k? - Yukawa" - Ph??ng trình h? chí

I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

Instinct's not a superpower. It's made of experience and memory and belief.

My mom taught me not to talk about money.

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?" 398

Do you know you can learn from pain?' But, he explains, the circumstances must be right. To learn, you must have a future:

If you knew at twenty what you know at thirty-five, what a marvellous life you could have; on the other hand, you might find that you couldn't be bothered to have any life at all.

Sólo eres joven una vez en la vida, dicen, ¿pero no se alarga mucho el tiempo? Más años de los que puedes soportar.

Seven Wise Men, he tells Gregory: here are their sayings. Moderation in all things, nothing to excess (those two are the same, wisdom can be repetitious). Know yourself. Know your opportunity. Look ahead. Don't try for the impossible. And Bias of Priene: pleistoi anthropoi kakoi, most men are bad.

I urge you both, undertake no course without deep thought: but learn to think very fast.

When no one else could see, he could see: and that is what it means to be a king.

Men, it is supposed want to pass their wisdom to their sons; he would give a great deal to protect his own son from a quartr of what he knows.

There is a time to be silent. There is a time to talk for your life.

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

The wise councillor must always prepare for his fall.

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?

the wise prince is not always the most popular prince;

He understands honor but does not boast of his own. . . He has studied the world without despising it. He understands the world without rejecting it. He has no illusions but he has hopes. He does not sleepwalk through his life. His eyes are open, and his ears for sounds others miss.