Quotes About Wisdom

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children. So you're right, it's a child's question, just as it should be.

How do you know nonsense isn't a good thing? if human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily previous could have come from it.

O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals...

The multiplication table is more wise and more absolute than the ancient god, for the multiplication table never (do you understand—never) makes mistakes! There are no more fortunate and happy people than those who live according to the correct, eternal laws of the multiplication table. No hesitation! No errors! There is but one truth, and there is but one path to it; and that truth is: four, and that path is: two times two.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around.

Children are exceptionally brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are always children.

The ancient god created the ancient man, i.e., the man capable of mistakes, ergo the ancient god himself made a mistake.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring—hence he erred himself.

Copiii sunt singurii filozofi care au curaj. Si filozofii curajosi sunt neaparat niste copii.

A quiet fool is half a sage.

Bygone troubles are good to tell.

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.

Don't spit into the well--you might drink from it later.

Stupidities that succeed are still stupidities.

Don't boast because you know too little," Mrs. Pang says. "Things change a lot. Within a blink a mountain flattens and a river dries up. Nobody knows who he'll become tomorrow.

Not knowing is okay, he had once said, but pretending to know is not.

They'll live their lives in their ignorance, but not I. Why do I read books if not to live up to principles that are worth striving for?

everyone has a story or two about that hard-earned lesson of giving more than is asked.

For years I have had the belief that all my questions will be answered by the books I'm reading. Books, however, only lead to other books.

In retrospect little makes sense - perhaps all stories, rather than once-upon-a-time, should start this way.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.

You observe a lot by watching.