Quotes About Wisdom

Therefore I will not 'learn' politics but let politics teach me.

I make a distinction between the wisdom of age - which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life - and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thought and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance.

Experience coupled with reading is strong medicine for the mind.

I know people who read endlessly, book after book, from cover to cover, and yet I would not call them 'well-read.' Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of sifting and organizing the information they have acquired. They don't have the ability to distinguish between what is useful and what is useless... Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

I am firmly convinced today that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I distinguish between the wisdom of age-which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life-and the creative genius of youth.

i will not "learn" politics but let politics teach me

Mi sono convinto che l'uomo, salvo particolarissimi casi, non deve occuparsi apertamente di politica prima di avere trent'anni. Prima di quell'età si forma in lui solo una base generale, dalla quale egli poi esamina i concreti problemi politici e stabilisce definitivamente i suoi rapporti con essi. Solo dopo aver raggiunto una simile visione basilare del mondo, che l'uomo maturo ha, potrà partecipare alla direzione politica della collettività

La llamada "intelectualidad" ve con infinito desdén a todo aquel que no pasó por las escuelas oficiales, para dejarse llenar de "sabiduría". Nunca se pregunta: ¿Qué sabe el individuo?, y sí: ¿Qué estudió? Para esas criaturas "cultas" más vale la cabeza hueca, bien protegida por títulos, que el muchacho más despierto.

in certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

Mladý muž je tehdy bohatý, má-li rozum v hlav? a dobrý oblek ve sk?íni.

We humans have grown cleverer but not wiser .

And realize that maybe they came into your life, not to be there forever, but to teach you something that will make you ready when forever finds you.

It is one of the many paradoxes of life he has come to accept, that learning the truth often requires acts of deception.

Niekuomet netik?kite, kad mums pražudo didel?s klaidos. Tai padaro mažos klaidel?s.

It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.

A man once told me that all books should end at chapter seventy-seven.

Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?

There was dead silence when we finished the scene. Then Bill spoke. "You know," he said, "sometimes in life, we THINK before we speak." I was mortified. But now I knew three things about acting: pick up your cues, don't wear hats, and think before you speak.

My state of being. Well, I'd gone from pissed off, lonely, sad, frightened, and depressed, to being a little wiser, a little stronger, a little more resilient. I'd survived.

Books will change your life, Rennie," Mrgot told me, handing me a copy of A Room of One's Own. You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude