Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...
But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'
There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Jack Kerouac

Mots clés wisdom wine

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And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

Anton Chekhov

Mots clés wisdom books despair immortality

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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

Anton Chekhov

Mots clés wisdom life truth reason beauty heaven earth understand

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

William Wordsworth

Mots clés wisdom reflection thoughts

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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Leo F. Buscaglia

Mots clés wisdom inspiration

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It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

Mots clés wisdom inspirational

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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mots clés wisdom inspirational

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There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Mots clés wisdom sci-fi

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A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Lao Tzu

Mots clés wisdom speech travel

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

Mots clés wisdom knowledge

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