Quotes About Wisdom

I think this was a bad idea,' he repeated. 'I think the best thing to do would be to forget all about this and just go back home. We can chalk it up to experience

Hay veces en que le envidio su juventud, pero trato de no pensar mucho en eso. Un anciano no debe tener celos de aquellos que vienen a ocupar su puesto, y recordar el tiempo en que era joven, sano y viril es un acto de masoquismo que no sirve de nada.

Well, I'm not advocating it," I said. "I just mean that before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.

Do you think . . . ? 'I do sometimes, my boy,'admitted the old man. 'When I can't avoid it.

They sat there in ascending order of age and stupidity.

Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see, said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years. That's true, she said. But only because most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power, they fear a change of the world order.

This deficiency would be scorched into our future like an ill-considered tattoo.

Que uno contemple el cielo por la noche no lo convierte en astrónomo.

that girl has no more sense than a postage stamp.

Remember, my young friend, life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practise.' He winked at me. 'Forster.

An old man should not resent those who are sent to take his place, and to recall when I was young and healthy and virile is an act of masochism that serves no purpose.

La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia

The suggestion, however, regarding my age – that I am perhaps not quite fifty years old – would flatter me immensely. For it is many years now since I have been able to say in all honesty that I have only seen half a century. This is simply the age, or at least the visual representation of an age, at which I have been stuck for a large proportion of my 256 years of life. I am an old man.

I'm 25 admitted the ghost. But I feel much older How old do you feel? Ancient, sometimes. Like, 30

Learn from examples in history lest thou be made an example

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

Consider the world we could live in if all of our local and global leaders, if all of our personal and professional friends and foes, recognized the defeasibility of their beliefs and acted accordingly. That sure sounds like progress to me. But of course I could be wrong.

We all start from radical ignorance in a world that is endlessly strange, vast, complex, intricate, and surprising. Deliverance from ignorance lies in good concepts—inference fountains that geyser out insights that organize and increase the scope of our understanding.

I can answer the question, but am I bright enough to ask it?")

It's the beginning of wisdom when you admit you've gone astray.

You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.

There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.