The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.