Quotes About Wisdom

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it's just not real. That's what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happen, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Travel teaches as much as books.

There are more ways to see than with your eyes, Flora. And now I see much more than I ever did when I had ordinary vision. It was a fair trade.

Saper vivere vuol dire non dimenticare mai queste quattro regole: non dire parole sbagliate, non dormire nel letto sbagliato, non varcare la soglia sbagliata e non infilare la mano nella tasca sbagliata.

As we Chinese say, you don't have to pay tax on bullshit. That being so, why not bullshit to the max?

Mia madre sosteneva che la terra è il miglior nutrimento dell'uomo, non solo fa crescere i raccolti, ma può anche guarire le malattie. In tutti quegli anni, mi tamponai qualunque ferita con una zolla di umido fango. Aveva ragione mia madre, il fango non va disprezzato, può curare mille malattie.

He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

But there is no such thing as individual knowledge, a particular knowledge belonging to one special person or group. Knowledge is the sea of humanity, the field of humanity, the general condition of human existence.

It's odd how one's memories of youth turn out so bleak. Why does the business of growing up—one's recollections of growth itself—have to be so tragic? I still haven't found the answer. I doubt if anybody has. When I finally reach that stage at which the placid wisdom of old age... occasionally descends on a person, then I too may suddenly discover that I understand. But I doubt whether, by that time, understanding will have much point.

To be half-clever was the worst I could have done.

U mladosti duhovni saputnici su nam prijatelji i knjige. Ali najve?a razlika izme?u prijatelja i knjiga je ta da se prijatelji menjaju, a knjige ne. Knjiga, ?ak i ako skuplja prašinu na polici ili u nekom uglu sobe, uporno ?uva svoj karakter i svoju filozofiju. Prihvataju?i je ili odbacuju?i je, ?itaju?i je ili ne, mi samo možemo da promenimo naš stav prema njoj, i to je sve.

A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what's inside pours out. It's only natural.

Avevo imparato ad atteggiare le labbra al sorriso di chi la sa lunga sulle vicende del mondo, un sorriso simile a quello di un giovane sacerdote. Avevo il senso di non essere né vivo né morto.

A todo el mundo le ocurre lo mismo, todos los seres humanos son iguales- replicó el viejo escritor, alzando la voz. -Pero creer lo contrario es el privilegio de la juventud.

Les oreilles des vieillards ne sont-elles pas de vrais coquillages constamment lavés par le flot et pleins de sagesse ?

He was fully aware that beauty is a thing which must sleep and which, in sleeping, must be protected by knowledge. But there is no such thing as individual knowledge, a particular knowledge belonging to one special person or group. Knowledge is the sea of humanity, the field of humanity, the general condition of human existence. I think that is what he wanted to say.

Não se pode explicar alguma coisa meramente lhe dando um nome.

Oamenii din "?inutul Rodiei" sunt foarte înÈ›elepÈ›i; È™tiu c? exist? doar dou? roluri pentru fiinÈ›ele din aceast? lume: cei care È›in minte È™i cei care sunt È›inuÈ›i minte.

Frauen sind wirklich kluge Wesen, was? (S.89, Jukichi)

What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.