Quotes About Wisdom

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

Always read the stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Never fight an inanimate object.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.

He [his uncle, Pliny the Elder] used to say that there was no book so bad that it was not useful at some point. Pliny the Younger, Epistula III.5.10

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

Everything in life that's any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

I always advise people never to give advice.

A WORD OF KINDNESS IS SELDOM SPOKEN IN VAIN, WHILE WITTY SAYINGS ARE AS EASILY LOST AS THE PEARLS SLIPPING FROM A BROKEN STRING. —George Prentice

Greatness is not just in the truth itself but in what we can do with it.

Life is consciousness expressing itself in form. All is alive. All is intelligent.

I will loose my camel, and trust it to God!" "No, no, not so," said the prophet, "tie thy camel, and trust it to God!

It's a queer thing, growing up. The years pile up, Hap, but at the same time I'm still ever age I ever was. When we stood before those sea-giants, I felt five years old, awed and scared. When I see a pretty lady, I'm eighteen again! And when my bones remind me, I feel all of my sixty years. All those ages are still inside me, all at once. The years stack up like sediment, and the layers remain.

when something seems complicated, we do not understand it, but when we do understand something, it has become simple.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Ahora ya comprendes: el camino es un río con sed.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.