Quotes About Wisdom

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

A library implies an act of faith.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Forty is the old age of youth while fifty is the youth of old age.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

I feel like Odysseus in Polyphemus's cave: "You will I eat last." To this Blumenfeld remarked on the telephone with a comforting quick wit: But Odysseus was not eaten, and it was Polyphemus who came to a bad end. […]

The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than another man - that we know nothing at all except what we have experienced ourselves.

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Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. -Richard Bach

My father once told me love is magic, sir.

It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong.

Think before you do! Don't ever be in haste to make a mistake, for that can be a big mistake! Think before you do!

Never make a decision while in the state of anger.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.