Quotes About Wisdom

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

Will the future bring your wisdom to me? Or will darkness rule the kingdom for all eternity? You will live in my heart… I will still remember even though we are apart. I will feel you there for me As I walk the road of life You help me fight for what is right I will honour thy name

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

To philosophize means to make vivid.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

The most intimate community of all knowledge—the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.

There is more truth in their romances than in learned chronicles.

Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.

Hätten wir auch eine Phantastik wie eine Logik, so wäre die Erfindungskunst – erfunden. Zur Phantastik gehört auch die Ästhetik gewissermaßen wie die Vernunftlehre zur Logik.

Orice om care gânde?te va g?si întotdeauna adev?rul - indiferent unde va voi s? se duc? ?i cum va voi s? mearg?.

Trebuie s? po?i începe ?i sfâr?i când vrei - sau trebuie s?-?i faci rost de o voin??. Voin?a e întotdeauna ra?ional? - ?i puternic?. Dac? vrei, atrunci po?i. Dar n-ai o voin?? ferm?, sau n-ai deloc, dac? e?ti ?i ac?ionezi nera?ional - dac? nu începi ?i nu încvhizi cartea când e bine ?i-n?elept s-o faci.

Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature

Some folks you tell some things, some folks you don't.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.

But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old. I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face. She put her small hand on mine. The world is wonderful , she said. All its little things. It is wonderful .

But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?