“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gabriel García Márquez 218
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"Diwali is an integral part of Hindu culture" http://www.flp.org.fj/n021102.htm - speech at Diwali celebrations in Ba, 2 November 2002
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Source: All the Little Live Things
“Can any good come out of Nazareth?”
This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected. Everything new is received with contempt, for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.
As quoted in "Voices of the New Time" as translated by C. C. Shackford in The Radical Vol. 7 (1870), p. 329
“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Context: Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
Quoted in Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century, ed. Robert Goldwater (Pantheon, 1945)
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