Quotes About Wisdom

Nobody knows. What good's an opinion if you don't know? My grandfather knew the number of whiskers in the Almighty's beard. I don't even know what happened yesterday, let alone tomorrow. He knew what it was that makes a rock or table. I don't even understand the formula that says nobody knows. We've got nothing to go on -- got no way to think about things.

Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?

You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin]

I nearly forgot something my old father told me not long before he died. He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.

When the first innocence goes, you can't stop—unless you're a hypocrite or a fool.

Things that happen are of no importance. But from everything that happens, there is a lesson to be learned.

Aron's training in worldliness was gained from a young man of no experience, which gave him the ability for generalization only the inexperienced can have.

I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present.

And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away.

For the paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership.

He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.

and what is truth?

They got to live before they can afford to die.

St. Paul has just closed his book. His finger marks the last page read and on his face are the wonder and will to understand after the book is closed. Maybe understanding is possible only after.

I don't want advice." "Nobody does. It's a giver's present.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit

And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge.

This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not do because it would not be shrewd.

You know, Suzy, they ain't no way in the world to get in trouble by keeping your mouth shut. You look back at every mess you ever got in and you'll find your tongue started it.

Por el grosor del polvo en los libros de una biblioteca pública puede medirse la cultura de un pueblo.

You never oughta drink water when it ain't running