If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.
Johan HuizingaThe more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VoltaireTags: wisdom learning self-knowledge
It's the truth, even if it didn't happen...
...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: wisdom
Live Free or Die; Death is Not the Worst of Evils.
John StarkTags: wisdom inspiration war new-england mottos battle new-hampshire john-stark
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom
Paul AusterTags: wisdom
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.
Stephen ColbertTags: wisdom optimism cynicism youth
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
Mark TwainTags: humor wisdom christianity wit christian christ
Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.
Dee MarieTags: wisdom politics merlin avalon arthurian
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still
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