All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.[The New York Times interview, 2000]”

“…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.”

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”

“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you’ve believed in all your life aren’t true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”

“The man of wisdom is never of two minds;the man of benevolence never worries;the man of courage is never afraid.”

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”

“CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed.MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed.CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying.MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing.CHORONZON: I am a nova, all-exploding… planet-cremating.MORPHEUS: I am the Universe — all things encompassing, all life embracing.CHORONZON: I am Anti-Life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds… of everything. Sss. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?MORPHEUS: I am hope.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”