Quotes About Wisdom

He sounds very unworldly," replied Ulf. "From what I heard the other night, he doesn't really know what's going on. He's a philosopher, you see.

But then one thing you did learn with the passage of time was not to ask too many questions. That was the difference, she decided, between being twenty and being forty. That, and other things, of course.

People, she said, generally wanted other people to believe the things they did, and would punish those who deviated...There were many such snares placed in the way of the unwary, and the consequence of inattention to the enforced wisdom of the times could be a medieval public shaming.

Young man! If my notes should fall into your hands, remember that the best and most enduring changes are those which stem from an improvement in moral behaviour, without any violent upheaval.

He who has lived and thought can never Help in his soul despising men, He who has felt will be forever Haunted by days he can't regain. For him there are no more enchantments, Him does the serpent of remembrance, Him does repentance always gnaw. All this will frequently afford A great delight to conversations.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousands truths

Los proverbios morales son asombrosamente útiles en los casos en que, por mucho que lo intentemos, no se nos ocurre nada para justificarnos.

E sempre o mesmo coro ressoa: Como o tempo passa e a vida voa!

fruto de mis años, marchitos antes de florecer (a Piotr Aleksandrovich Pletnev)

The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.

Do you want a piece of advice from your old father? Not really. Don't look back so much or you'll get wiped out on the tree in front of you.

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.

Haste is a poor counselor

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – wait and hope.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.