Quotes About Wisdom

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

I guess some stories do not need telling.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, Hope, a treacherous illusion.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence.

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

He had a frozen, wide-eyed look to his face, I remember, the way some old people do, like they are perpetually startled by the monstrous surprise that is old age.

Änd the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

To je bilo davno, ali ljudi griješe kada kažu da prošlost može da se pokopa.

It hurts to say that," he said, shrugging. "But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Takes a donkey to know a donkey.

Rekla je da je istina u nepromjenjivosti matemati?kih istina, nedostatku proizvoljnosti i odsustvu dvosmislenost. U saznanju da odgovori mogu biti neuhvatljivi, ali ih je mogu?e prona?i. Bili su tamo, ?ekaju?i da budu ispisani na tabli. Nimalo nalik životu, drugim rije?ima, kazao je.