#om

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. ↗

— Voltaire

#self-knowledge #wisdom #wisdom

Wise? No, I simply learned to think. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#wisdom

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#women

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#women

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot! ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#women

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#wisdom

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#books #libraries #wisdom #wisdom

Never laugh at live dragons. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#wisdom #wisdom

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#wisdom