Quotes About Wisdom

que a quien le daña el saber homicida es de sí mismo!

En esta vida todo es verdad y todo mentira.

O, malen je dar nam dan, jer sav život - to je san, a san su i sami snovi.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal.

Pero no, Carlos no podía mentirle, no podía haberla engañado con esos ojos tan dulces. Y si lo había hecho, mejor no saber, mejor hacerse la lesa, la más tonta de las locas, la más bruta, que solo sabía bordar y cantar canciones viejas.

Deje que lo revuelva todo, que solo el que lo revuelve todo saca algo en claro.

Read good, big important things.

big things are best said, are almost always said, in small words.

I think that to achieve true adulthood is to understand the simplicity of things.

We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: "Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.

Ödet binder dig icke vid okunnigheten.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Understanding makes the mind lazy.

Old age is not the same thing as historical interest,' he said. 'Otherwise we should both of us be more interesting than we are.

I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us.

Perhaps there is always something in our head that is ready to learn.

For one's past grows to a point where it is longer than one's future, and then it can become too great a burden.

Querida señora Evans, por Dios, venga a enseñarme cómo vivir. No es que lo haya olvidado; es que nunca he sabido. Un útero no es tan importante. Es sólo la cuna de la vida, algo que tira de la luna como si fuera un cometa y hace que el mar suba y baje, suba y baje, la respiración del mundo.

No se aprende nada lastimando a los demás; solo aprendes cuando te lastiman a ti.