Quotes About Wisdom

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

Do you really exist? I blurt out. Not at all, he says with a smile, I've known that since I was four.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

We are such wonderful idiots, Peter thinks.

I learn. Sometimes I am taught something I have already been taught in dozens of other classrooms. Sometimes I am taught something completely new. I have to access the body, access the mind and see what information it's retained. And when I do, I learn. Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind. Nobody at Padua High School fits that description.

It's my way of telling her that even though I haven't experienced so many things, I have managed to have a life.

I am a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell

What's the point of all this magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. Which is another form of magic, only less showy.

I knew she didn't suffer fools gladly, but she'd gladly make a fool suffer.

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

love sometimes causes you to do stupid things. And even when the lessons are clear to everyone else around you, sometimes you have a hard time seeing them yourself. When people say love is blink, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others.

Will, he says, do you have a sec to talk in the living room? I spin around in the desk chair and stand up. My stomach flips a bit because the living room is the room least likely to be lived in, the room where the nonexistence of Santa is revealed, where grandmothers die, where grades are frowned upon, and where one learns that a man's station wagon goes inside a woman's garage, and then exits the garage, and then enters again, and so on until an egg is fertilized, and etc.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go. - A

No tengo narices a decirle que esa es la manera incorrecta de afrontar la vida. Siempre va a haber más preguntas. Cada respuesta desemboca en más preguntas. La única manera de sobrevivir es dejar alguna sin respuesta

Insight, n.: How telling that there isn't anything called "outsight," as if language itself knows the direction that wisdom must come from. — David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

Stay true to yourself. Let your voice ring out, and don't let anybody fiddle with it. Never turn down a good idea, but never take a bad idea. And meditate.

Little by little, new facts become blurred through old glasses fitted, as it were, for the needs of another generation; older men, assuming that the scene is the same as it was in the past, cease to explore or inquire into the present or the future."7

In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.

If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.

La tiranía de los ignorantes es insuperable y está asegurada por siempre jamás. Dijo Einstein.

One hour of going to see things with your own eyes is more worthwhile than twenty hours of talking about things.