Quotes About Wisdom

I suppose you're young,' she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

A smart model is a good model.

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

My brother has his swords, I have my books. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.

This Way, 168).

morale. Enfin, même si l'on pouvait observer une relation entre souffrance et morale, je ne vois pas quelle espèce de précepte on devrait en tirer : personne ne peut s'arroger le droit de recommander aux autres d'aspirer au malheur pour devenir plus vertueux.

The past requires not only that we study it and know it, but also that we learn its lessons - for this simple reason: evil is not just a thing of the past.

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.

The demand for permanence in every area of our existence is the cause of human misery. There's no such thing as permanence at all.

Not answers, but the ending of questions, is the important thing.

Nobody knows anything about life and there is NO point in defining life.

To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man".

Bilgi sahibi olmadan, fikir sahibi olunmaz.

Love tells us many things that are not so.

First, higher mental functions are grounded in and emerge out of a practical, prereflective form of intelligence.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

We live for books.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.