Quotes About Wisdom

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The pompous son of a bitch knows everything—it's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that—of just that.

Anonymous inanely stupid letter,' he said. 'Who has ever sent me an anonymous letter? Who capable of rational thought sends anyone an anonymous letter?

mi a helyes, mi az épelméj?, és ki vagyok én, hogy azt állíthassam, valaha is eleget tudtam ahhoz, hogy a helyeset lépjem?

One of the first rules of any marriage, (1) Don't forget the benefits of her (his) stupidity. (2) She (he) cannot be taught anything by you, so don't try.

Tu?i già không ph?i là má»™t tr?n chi?n; tu?i già là má»™t cuá»™c th?m sát

Nulla, nulla viene mai detto una volta sola - nulla!

You have the body of an old man, the life of an old man, the past of an old man, and the instinctive force of a two-year-old.

Anyone with any brains understands that he is destined to lead a stupid life because there is no other kind.

Really, can they be this blind? Can people be so abysmally stupid and live?

he spoke from ignorance then, and admits as much today.

You learn by sixty to accept in a sporting spirit the derision of virtuous bystanders.

I learned that back there in Weequahic in 1944 I'd lived through a summerlong social tragedy that didn't have to be a lifelong personal tragedy too.

If there was ever anything to know, now he knew he never had known it.

Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew

How you think matters more than what you think

It's very hard to master and if you're not learning all the time, you will fail. That being said, humility in the face of the game is extremely different than humility in the face of your opponents.

Be careful about making assumptions of expertise, ask experts if you can find them, reexamine your assumptions from time to time.

Knowing what we don't know is better than thinking we know what we don't.