Quotes About Wisdom

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse under your wheel.

He wrote in the fly leaf: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est! "That means 'Knowledge is power!' Oh, I do believe that, Marion.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.

It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day! What matters is THIS moment!

All sons should write down every word of what their fathers have to say to them.

As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled. She was ashamed that such a simple insight should have eluded her all these years. Make something beautiful of your life.

Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I've lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

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Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est!

Knowledge shall be promoted by frequent exercise Art polishes and improves nature Fortune is a fair but fickle mistrefs Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward." from CUTTING FOR STONE

All sons should write down every word of what their fathers have to say to them. I tried. Why did it take an illness for me to recognize the value of time with him? It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day! What matters is this moment!

Now and then Ghosh would grin and wink at me across the room. He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion

Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I've lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school. Ahab, Queequeg, Ophelia, and other characters die on the page so that we might live better lives.

the retrospectoscope, that handy tool of the wags and pundits, the conveners of the farce we call M&M—morbidity and mortality conference—will pronounce your decision right or wrong. Life, too, is like that.

But I learned that ignorance is never revealed if one holds one's tongue. To speak is what removes all doubts.

He alone amongst all the people she knows uses his two ears and one mouth in that exact proportion. She loves him in a way she

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.