Quotes About Wisdom

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

But everything is how it should be. How's that for wisdom?

The past and the present coagulate into something that makes sense to him.

The prince who would know all, must ignore much.

Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise.

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

People think common sense is common - but it's not.

20 No te aconsejes con tontos; porque éstos no pueden amar sino aquello que a ellos les place. 21 No consultes en presencia de un extraño o desconocido; porque no sabes lo que él maquina dentro de sí. 22 Ni descubras tu corazón a cualquier hombre; no sea que te muestre una falsa amistad, y te afrente. 9

37 Tampoco echa nadie vino nuevo en cueros viejos: de otra suerte el vino nuevo hará reventar los cueros, y se derramará el vino, y se echarán a perder los cueros; 38 sino que el vino nuevo se debe echar en cueros nuevos, y así ambas cosas se conservan. 39 Del mismo modo, ninguno acostumbrado a beber vino añejo, quiere inmediatamente del nuevo, porque dice: Mejor es el añejo. 6

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

dedicated to babswith babs knows whatand babs knows why

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

The aphorism is already a shadow of itself.

Yes, I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far better; but let's face it — you weren't listening then either.

Everything was perfect. I sensed that I knew everything and had no questions to ask.

Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.