Quotes About Wisdom

my father became very Chinese then. He said, 'There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar

Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time." Her

Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

I would be disappointed if you had not become an atheist, and I read pleasantly that you have, in your age and wisdom, accepted agnosticism the way you'd take a cookie on a full stomach.

Mes nenor?jom matyti to, ko negal?jom išaiškinti, ir tokiu b?du didel? pasaulio dalis buvo palikta vaikams ir bepro?iams, kvailiams ir mistikams, kurie labiau dom?josi pa?iais reiškiniais negu j? priežastimis. Pasaulio pal?p?n sugr?sta tiek daug sen? ir nuostabi? daikt?, kuri? mes nenorim matyti šalia sav?s, ta?iau išmesti nedr?stam.

Por el grosor del polvo en los libros de una biblioteca pública puede medirse la cultura de un pueblo. - John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968)

Lee watched him for a while before he went back to his kitchen. He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.

Sen belki bütün gece gezmeyi saÄŸl?kl? buluyorsundur ama Yüce Tanr?m?z bu konuda ne uygun görürse onu yapacak. Liza Hamilton'la Yüce Tanr?m?z'?n hemen her konuda benzer görüÅŸleri olduÄŸu herkesin malumuydu.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.

Hay más belleza en la verdad, aunque sea una verdad terrible. Los narradores de historias de las ciudades falsean de tal manera la vida, que la hacen parecer dulce a los ojos de los perezosos, de los estúpidos y de los débiles, y eso sólo contribuye a reforzar sus flaquezas, sin enseñarles nada, ni hacerles el menor bien, ni engrandecer su corazón

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

They just know the nature of things too well to be caught in that wanting.

Doctor Winter was a man so simple that only a profound man would know him as profound.

Yes, it meant something." Then he said, "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?" "Maybe you're right," said Adam. "It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.

So we go into this happy new year, knowing that our species has learned nothing, can, as a race, learn nothing

Thank you for wanting to honor me with the truth, my son. It's not clever but it's more permanent.

Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the highest peak, and the deepest ocean, empty of all limiting thoughts.

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

live your way into the answer.1 —RAINER MARIA RILKE'S ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.