Quotes About Wisdom

often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

Ahh, the salvation of souls, But wisdom we had not For these people had neither King nor Lord And bowed to no one And they had lived in their own liberty - Amerigo

Aprendi com ele que muitas vezes a contradição é o caminho mais claro para a verdade.

Da lui ho imparato che la contraddizione è spesso la più limpida forma di verità

Herkes ölür," demi?ti yava? yava? güçlerini kaybeden ellerine bakarak. "Fakat ben bunun böyle olaca??n? önceden tahmin edememi?tim i?te. Ama sorun de?il. Hayat?m? istedi?im gibi ya?ad?m.

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little," wrote Mark Twain, "it's that they know so many things that ain't so.")

If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

When you try to learn everything about something, you end up learning something about everything.

What's your life philosophy, Leo?" "I haven't figured it out yet." Abbey considers this. "'I haven't figured it out yet' is not a bad life philosophy

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In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

Speak now before it is too late, and then hope to go on speaking until there is nothing more to be said.

Would it not be better to learn the truth once and for all instead of living in a state of perpetual uncertainty?

When you've lived as long as I have, you tend to think you've heard everything, that there's nothing left that can shock you anymore. You grow a little complacent about your so-called knowledge of the world, and then, every once in a while, something comes along that jolts you out of your smug cocoon of superiority, that reminds you all over again that you don't understand the first thing about life.

when a man's only assets are the brain in his head and the tongue in his mouth, he has to think carefully before he decides to open that mouth and speak.

George Washington chopped down the tree, and then he threw away the money. Do you understand? He was telling us an essential truth. Namely, that money doesn't grow on trees. This is what made our country great, Peter. Now George Washington's picture is on every dollar bill. There is an important lesson to be learned from all this.

At fifty-seven, I felt old. Now, at seventy-four, I feel much younger than I did then.

For the fact is that it takes a great deal of self-confidence for a person to poke fun at himself, and a person with that kind of self-confidence is rarely a fool or a bungler.

Only God can see the main road and the back road at the same time—which means that only God can know if you made the right choice or the wrong choice.