723 quotes found
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”
“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”
“A man without words is a man without thought.”
“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
“When in doubt, choose to live.”
“But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”
“Time flows away like the water in the river.”
“I like places like this," he announced.I like old places too," Josh said, "but what's to like about a place like this?"The king spread his arms wide. "What do you see?"Josh made a face. "Junk. Rust...”
“...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”
“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”
“Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the ne...”
“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.”
“If I’d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades....”
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
“There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.”
“Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.”
