Quotes About Wisdom

IN THE THEOPHANY, TECCAM writes of secrets, calling them painful treasures of the mind. He explains that what most people think of as secrets are really nothing of the sort. Mysteries, for example, are not secrets. Neither are little-known facts or forgotten truths. A secret, Teccam explains, is true knowledge actively concealed.

I think things are usually bad one way or another," he said. "It might be that only us older folk can see it.

Todo hombre sabio teme tres cosas: una tormenta en el mar, una noche sin luna y la ira de un hombre apacible.

You see, a laurel needs to grow. I can't do much about that. But I can keep the rain off a few musicians heads, can't I?" A sly smile wound it's way onto his face. "So God will tend the laurels and keep them wet. And I will tend the players and keep them dry. And wiser minds than mine will decide when to bring the two together." -Count Threpe

?? có th? giã t? cõi ??i khiêm nh??ng nhÆ° th? c?n Ä'ôi chút t?i thi?u lòng t?t b?m sinh...

DüÅŸünmek,herkesin acemice uygulamas?na gelmeyecek kadar güç bir ÅŸeydir.

Ä°nsan bu konuda ne kadar çok ÅŸey bilirse, geçerli tek bir söz bile söyleyebilmesi de o ölçüde zorla??yor.

L'ignorance n'a rien de honteux, la plupart des hommes voient en elle le bonheur. Et, de fait, elle est le seul bonheur possible en ce monde.

Aunque no contaba todavía treinta años, madame Gaillard ya tenía la vida a sus espaldas.

talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Sometimes the hardest thing someone has to do is admit that he's wrong. Of course I only know this from what I hear from other people, as it's never happened to me personally." -Dionysus, god of wine, women, and song, bartender

Wisp had shared with us during his membership drive that there were over 4,800 volumes in that room alone, and he had read every one of them. Another advantage to being immortal was the chance to really catch up on your reading.

A bartender named Murphy once told me to be careful when I hit the road because sometimes the road hits back. He was right.

Perfectly stay in the natural flow, There is no other concentration. Perfectly realize the natural state, There is no other wisdom.

I guess that sometimes, even when we can see something is very wrong, it doesn't mean that God isn't at work executing a much greater plan.

Gratefully, I've lived long enough to know that if I can own my failures, others won't struggle with them either.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction) , November 17, 2010)

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

I thought of something I learned from reading Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz. Crazy Horse believes that he will be victorious in battle, but if he stops to take spoils from the battlefield, he will be defeated. He tattoos lightning bolts on the ears of his horses so the sight of them will remind him of this as he rides. I tried to apply this lesson to the things at hand, careful not to take spoils that were not rightfully mine.

What is nothing? I impetuously asked. -It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.