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Quotes About Wisdom

It looks backward, at the past, and it learns from what's gone before. Some people never learn." My
~ Zadie Smith
These are old secrets. They will come out like wisdom teeth when the time is right.)
~ Zadie Smith
In this lengthy riposte, the philosopher informs Paulinus that "learning how to live takes a whole life," and the sense most of us have that our lives are cruelly brief is a specious one: "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
~ Zadie Smith
What I have realized, is that the generations,' Samad continued as they sped through miles and miles of unchanging flatlands, 'they speak to each other, Jones. It's not a line, Life is not a line -- this is not palm-reading -- it's a circle, and they speak to us. That is why you cannot read fate; you must experience it.
~ Zadie Smith
Oh, there was a certain pleasure. And don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate
~ Zadie Smith
That is a common mistake. The truth does not depend on what you read.
~ Zadie Smith
There's no woodland or forest-like aspect but it does feel like the middle of something, and wisdom finally arrives, even if only as an awareness that inside the adult flesh cages lurk the exact same children.
~ Zadie Smith
The art of mid-life is surely always cloudier than the art of youth, as life itself gets cloudier.
~ Zadie Smith
That girl," tutted Alsana as her front door slammed. "Swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.
~ Zadie Smith
The shit is not the shit (this was Mo's mantra), the pigeon is the shit.
~ Zadie Smith
Please. Do me this one, great favor, Jones. If ever you hear anyone, when you are back home—if you, if we, get back to our respective homes—if ever you hear anyone speak of the East," and here his voice plummeted a register, and the tone was full and sad, "hold your judgment. If you are told 'they are all this' or 'they do this' or 'their opinions are these,' withhold your judgment until all the facts are upon you.
~ Zadie Smith
i libri sono specchi in cui troviamo solo ciò che abbiamo dentro di noi, e (...) la lettura coinvolge mente e cuore, due merci sempre più rare.
~ Unknown
Beatriz Aquilar : i libri sono specchi in cui troviamo solo ciò che abbiamo dentro di noi, e (...) la lettura coinvolge mente e cuore. - L'ombra del vento
~ Unknown
les livres sont des miroirs,et l`on n y voit que ce qu`on porte en soi-meme.
~ Unknown
Laimingas tas, kur? aploja kvailiai,nes jo siela niekada jiems nepriklausys
~ Unknown
Mes suvokiame, koks godulys slepiasi širdyje, tik tada, kai išgirstame skambant sidabr? kišen?je
~ Unknown
Ten ?wiat nie zginie od bomby atomowej, jak prorokuj? gazety, ale umrze ze ?miechu, ze strywalizowania, z obracania wszystkiego w ?art, na domiar z?ego w kiepski ?art.
~ Unknown
Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
~ Unknown
Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.
~ Zane
I got a few gray hairs to testify to my wisdom, 2 grand babies & long. black dido named Harry...
~ Zane
All of that is to say that women need to wise up and stop overlooking the men who are capable of loving them right and chasing after the men that will treat them horribly.
~ Zane
as it is. There's good an
~ Zane Grey
Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important
~ Zbigniew Herbert
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
~ Zen Master Dogen