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Wisdom Quotes
"Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
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"There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former."
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"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."
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"The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals."
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"Knowing is important, but understanding is everything."
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"Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are."
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"It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one."
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"This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise."
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"When we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels."
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"Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent."
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"Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?"He made a fist."Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.'"But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson."What lesson? I asked.He stretched open his empty fingers."We can take nothing with us."
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"Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks."
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"A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools."
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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
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"Do not trust everyone who smiles at you; some admire your achievements, but some misunderstand them, and many more envy them. Jealousy is like the sky: everywhere on everyone."
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"A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none."
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"It is easier to deal with one with an empty bank account than with one, with a broke mind."
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"Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction."
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"Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.""Then possibly my answer has crossed yours."
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"We derive insightful perception by observing and studying, comparing and contrasting. Without investigating why we prefer the veil of life to the cloak of death and without considering how to create dangerously, live honorably, and die gloriously without remorse and regret, we risk dissipating what precious little shelf life our brittle humanity grants us."
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"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
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"Some praise at morning what they blame at night."
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"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
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"When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter."
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"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."
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"We learn from every experience to be wise."
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"Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise."
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"A 'biomass' man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions."
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"And Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed anymore."
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"The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life."
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"A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost."
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"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
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