Quotes About Wisdom

and wondered how much power and how much wisdom it would take to do right by more than one person at a time. A

You listened so you would learn; you thought so that your answer would not return to humiliate or harm you, because, in Paulie's world, once something was said it could not be called back or explained away.

An old man's errors mattered both more and less than a young man's. More because there was less time to undo them; less because there was less time to endure their consequences.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The

Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with great beards - look as grave as you will - I'll make merry work with my button-holes - I shall have 'em all to myself - 'tis a maiden subject - I shall run foul of no man's wisdom or fine sayings in it.

que la naturaleza no era ni muy pródiga ni muy tacaña a la hora de conceder los dones del genio y de la inteligencia a sus habitantes;—sino que, como un progenitor juicioso, era moderadamente benigna con todos ellos;

Ä°ÅŸte senin yanl???n da burada, diye kar??l?k verirdi babam - çünkü Foro Scientiae (bilim alan?)'de CÄ°NAYET diye bir ÅŸey yoktur, yaln?zca ÖLÜM vvard?r kardeÅŸim.

Si la instalación de la ventana de Momo en el pecho del hombre, de acuerdo con la corrección propuesta por aquel archicrítico, hubiera tenido lugar[134],——primero: sin duda alguna habría sucedido el siguiente desatino:—que hasta los más sabios y serios de todos nosotros habríamos tenido que pagar, en una u otra moneda, impuestos de ventana[135] todos y cada uno de los días de nuestra vida.

Ni las artes del médico ni las del filósofo habrían sido jamás capaces de enderezar del todo semejante entuerto.

Je weniger wirkliches Wissen, desto mehr Hitze und Aufregung.

Mi padre comenzaba apoyándose en la fuerza de los dos axiomas siguientes: Primero: que, para un hombre, una onza de su propia inteligencia valía por una tonelada de la de cualquier otra persona; y Segundo (el cual, por cierto, era el fundamento del primer axioma—aunque viniera después): que la inteligencia de todo hombre debía necesariamente provenir de su propia alma—y jamás de la de ninguna otra persona.

Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

Age is artificial. It's soulless. It doesn't matter one bit.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. It's not just about bowls, you know.

Fruity said, "It went in one ear and out the other." Baba said, "Not surprising. There's very little in between to stop it.

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

Plants make way more seeds than they need, because they know that life is not perfect and all the seeds won't make it.

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. —Benjamin Franklin, 1722

Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.