Quotes About Wisdom

So what? Few men, Miles reflected, lived so comfortably within the confines of a two.word personal philosophy.

You get more misanthropic every day. - I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

La verdad no sirve como sustituto de una buena respuesta.

Maybe this was the unstated purpose of education, to get young people to see the world through the tired eyes of age: disappointment and exhaustion and defeat masquerading as wisdom.

That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about—acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

After all, diminishment seemed to be the order of the day. Wouldn't you think the spirit, unshackled at last from so many of the body's youthful imperatives and bolstered by the wisdom of experience, would finally become ascendant? Wasn't memory, that bully and oppressor, supposed to become soft and spongy?

wasn't in fact possible to strip life of its clutter for the simple reason that life was clutter.

Outside of a dog," Teddy said, wiggling his eyebrows and puffing on an imaginary Groucho cigar, a whole other Marx than the one Mickey alluded to, "a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could find if you cared to look, and once you found this rhythm it'd get you through a morning. Rhythm was what Sully had counted on over the long years - that and the wisdom to understand that no job, no matter how thankless or stupid or backbreaking, could not be gotten through. The clock moved if you let it.

Had I been more, I'd be more. Simple.

Richard Russo

Humour is a poor substitution for accuracy, and a poorer proxy for truth

I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read.

Man starts thinking this late in life, no previous experience or proper guidance, there's no telling where it could lead.

people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It

Man starts thinking this late in life, no previous experience or proper guidance

To see a life back to front, as everyone begins to do in middle age, is to strip it of its mystery and wrap it in inevitability, drama's enemy.

I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read. Around

You are old, Father William—

education is a process through which truth is not introduced into the mind from without, but is "led out" from within.

When God had completed the creation of the world as a sacred temple of his glory and wisdom, he conceived a desire for one last being whose relation to the whole and to the divine Author would be different from that of every other creature. At this ultimate moment God considered the creation of the human being, who he hoped would come to know and love the beauty, intelligence, and grandeur of the divine work...

Astrology," he stated, "represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

This may sound somewhat obvious but, as the French philosopher Voltaire once famously pointed out, the main problem with common sense is that it is not so common.

a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.