quotes about Old And Wise

last updated: November 28, 2023

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed...
-- T. E. Lawrence

Source : T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.513, e-artnow

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“Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.”

Source : Grace Aguilar (1853). “Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar”, p.104
“Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.”

Source : Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.
“I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music”
“You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.”
“Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.”
“You learn how to persevere... to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit.”
“If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.”

Source : "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.
“When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.”
“You know what it takes to win. Just look at my fist. When I make a fist, it's strong and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength. We must become so close with the bonds of loyalty and sacrifice, so deep with the conviction of the sole purpose, that no one, no group, no thing, can ever tear us apart.”
“Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.”

Source : "On a Modified Form of the Second Fundamental Theorem in the Mechanical Theory of Heat" (1856)