Quotes About Wisdom

For all his age and intelligence, Hendrich was fundamentally immature. He was a child. (…) we were just old. And that, in cases such as Hendrich, it didn't really matter how many years (…) had passed, because you were always living within the parameters of your personality. No expanse of time or place could change that. You could never escape yourself.

Bücher sind Bäume, die träumen.

Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips, and unpicked flowers.

Life is "understood backward; but it must be lived forward" (Søren Kierkegaard)

You are the library card.

es un libro de los que leen para sentirse inteligentes, o de los que fingen no haber leído nunca para seguir pareciendo inteligentes?

Letters to a Young Poet—Rainer Maria Rilke Poems—Emily Dickinson Henry David Thoreau's journal When Things Fall Apart—Pema Chödrön The House at Pooh Corner—A. A. Milne Bird by Bird—Anne Lamott Meditations—Marcus Aurelius Tao Te Ching—Laozi Serious Concerns—Wendy Cope Dream Work—Mary Oliver

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live

We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter

La única manera de aprender es vivir.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You got me.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

We are shaped more by our failures than our successes (paraphrase)

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You

We don't go into a state of shock when something big and bad happens," she says. "It has to be something big and bad that we do not yet understand.

Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

You could have just told me I wasn't a bad cat owner. Why didn't you?' 'Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

There are a lot of idiots in your species. Lots and lots. You are not one of them. Hold your ground.

You know, the age thing. I have generally found men to be quite a disappointment. Montaigne said that the point of life is to give yourself to yourself.

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.' 'Sounds hard.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely.

excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives'.

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. [Tom Hazard]

And we risk only ever looking above to the future or below to the past and never around at the infinite horizontal landscape of the present. The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.