Quotes About Wisdom

Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.

Peut-être les Chapdelaine pensaient-ils à cela et chacun à sa manière ; le père avec l'optimisme invincible d'un homme qui se sait fort et se croit sage ; la mère avec un regret résigné ; et les autres, les jeunes, d'une façon plus vague et sans amertume (...) Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hémon, éd. Gallimard, coll. littérature québéquoise, p. 40

A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before — it takes something from him.

A filosofia começa no momento em que cessa o divertimento.

A arte mais fina não reside na habilidade das construções lógicas, mas em certo contacto que se espera manter sempre com o real.

Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters;

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It's not divine madness like some people think, there's no such thing as divine madness, madness is just madness. Love is hallucinating without drugs.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze, die er nog niet in staan, zijn merkwaardig.

El verdadero fin de las operaciones de la alquimia, que acaso son residuos de una ciencia muy antigua perteneciente a una civilización desaparecida, es la transformación del propio alquimista, su ascenso a un estado de conciencia superior.

I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

Do not follow the bad example which I have set you; I have often undertaken war too lightly and have sustained it for vanity. Do not imitate me, but be a peaceful prince, and may you apply yourself principally to the alleviation of the burdens of your subjects

Sometimes what we see as a loss turns out in the end to be a gain, and sometimes a gain is a loss. I try not to be too swift to pass judgment on any situation, preferring instead to be patient and take the long view because I believe that in the end all things work together for good.