Quotes About Wisdom

Every life contains within it a potential for clarification. He has lost that chance. The conflicts that are now pressing him down in his chair are the same ones he had in his thirties, when I got to know him, when he became my father. The only thing age has done is to whittle away his ability to confront them.

deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.

For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.' Mark 4:22.

Kinder haben keine Vorurteile, und die Urteile werden ihnen erst gemacht. Nicht von den Dichtern, sondern von denen, die scheinbar erfolgreich die Gegenwart besetzen.

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

Stupid people often say the smartest things.

But I should have known.

Now in her mid-sixties, she had "common-lawed"—her words—old Ansel, who used to manage ranches in California and now spent most of his days rereading the Russians. Chekhov, Turgenev, Pushkin. Ren had once asked him why he loved them, as he himself found the going mostly too dour. "I don't love them," Ansel had said. "You don't?" "Nothing worth serious study is lovable.

In the World According to Celine and Pete the very best part of every town was the library.

I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.

By...handing children the fruit of the tree of knowledge unmediated by adult wisdom, we have abandoned our young to powers and influences which we cannot control, and whose strength we do not know. To leave a child unsupervised in front of a television set is no less dangerous than giving it neat gin, or putting it within reach of narcotics.

V oby?ejném ?ase, v tom na hodinách, pochopí ?lov?k ur?ité v?ci. Když nechá ?as b?žet, pochopí jiné.

Love is a book and a light to read it by.

Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.

language of the Bible is meant always to point us to a truth beyond the text, a meaning that transcends the particular and imperfectly understood context of the original writers, and our own prejudices and parochialisms that we bring to the text. Literalism is not part of the solution to this

What was concealed in the Old is revealed in the New." The New Testament itself is

scripture that Jesus was intending to convey. The Sermon on

La facturación es vanidad, los beneficios son sentido común».

El murciélago era listo. Lo único que tenía que hacer era cagar y esperar.

Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backwards.

Know the definition of a pessimist?' Branson shook his head. 'It's an optimist with experience.

Er war ein kluger Kopf, mit einem astronomisch hohen IQ. Aber ein hoher IQ macht einen nicht automatisch zu einem tollen Menschen, nicht einmal zu einem guten. Es bedeutet lediglich, dass man sich allen möglichen Scheiß ausdenken kann, zu dem andere nicht fähig sind.

He had learned over the years that it was wise to ignore suggestions. Most suggestions came from idiots. Intelligent people kept their thoughts to themselves.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.