Quotes About Wisdom

What's the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That's how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything. [179]

He explained that he had arrived at college without knowing much about religion, and how, from reading English literature, he'd begun to realize how ignorant he was. The world had been formed by beliefs he knew nothing about. 'That was the beginning,' he said, 'realizing how stupid I was.

As soon as the cry reached my father, however, he marched into the kitchen to tell his mother that, this time at least, her spoon was wrong. "And how you know so much?" Desdemona asked him. To which he replied what many Americans of his generation would have: "It's science, Ma.

I ask you: is dullness a gift? Intelligence a curse? I'm fort-seven years old and live alone.

Kraft—making his presence felt at NASA in much the same way he had at NACA—had established one of the most important of the space agency's growing list of flight rules: If you don't know what to do, don't do anything at all.

At my age, I feel like I'm halfway to the finish line and life's too short to do what I'm sure to hate.

Sidebar: Mindy Kaling describes "best friend" as being a friendship tier and not a singular person. Mindy Kaling is wise beyond her years.)

Caution and I are old friends," Marik replied. "She's kept me alive and out from behind prison bars. I trust her.

No se puede vivir sin arrepentimientos. Algunas veces tienes que elegir cuáles te acompañarán en tu vida.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

Antes de la iluminación, corta madera y carga agua. Después de la iluminación, corta madera y carga agua.

Nada es imposible para alguien con una mente de principiante, es lo que Suzuki le está diciendo. Doug Larson, un periodista del siglo XX, lo dijo de una manera más graciosa: Algunos de los mayores logros del mundo fueron realizados por personas que no fueron lo suficientemente inteligente para saber que eran imposibles.

Its true power lies in its simplicity.

Her greatest legacy could not be measured in garments or in words, but in the wisdom she had imparted, in the lives made better because she had touched them.

I understood that at eight years of age, but I had forgotten it by eighteen.

learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books, and as long as there are books, there will be libraries.

A life well-lived is a life filled with mistakes and stupid shit you should've never done.

A life well-lived is a life filled with mistakes and stupid shit you should've never done." The

You can't just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years.

don't be snowed by a handsome guy at a bookstore who quotes Cicero and Proust. They are often not the real thing. As with many fleeting pleasures--travel in their company, enjoy them every so often, and then get on with your life.

All his genius and he's wrong. I can stay mad forever.

God allows you to struggle, even though his power could prevent it, because his wise and compassionate authority knows that the benefit of your struggle far outweighs the comfort you may experience from his rescue.

Here it's probably worth pointing out that the original meaning of advice was "judgment.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.