Quotes About Wisdom

I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples.

I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devil—I don't know which.

Conceive you - that ass!

There are things you find nothing about in books

And after some more talk we agreed that the wisdom of rats had been grossly overrated, being in fact no greater than that of men.

One lives too long. Happy X-mas.

Tal vez toda la diferencia estribe en eso; tal vez toda la sabiduaría, toda la verdad, toda la sinceridad, están comprimidas en aquel inapreciable momento de tiempo en el que atravesamos el umbral de lo invisible.

bearers of a spark from the sacred fire. What

Now who art thou, that on the bench wouldst sit In judgment at a thousand miles away, With the short vision of a single span?

that glance of insufferable, hopelessly dense sufficiency which nothing but the frequentation of science can give to the dullness of common mortals.

For if ye had been able to see all, No need there were for Mary to give birth;

He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green. It will fall of itself when ripe, but if picked unripe the apple is spoiled, the tree is harmed, and your teeth are set on edge.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom

Thou'rt wise, and knowest better than I speak. And as he is, who unwills what he willed, And by new thoughts doth his intention change, So that from his design he quite withdraws

Sono persuaso che nessuno sciocco ha mai fatto un patto col diavolo per la propria anima: lo sciocco è troppo sciocco, oppure il diavolo è troppo diavolo.

your grandfather called it. It has stood the test of time, and

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance.

Shakespeare gathered the fruitage of all who went before him, he has sown the seeds for all who shall ever come after him. He was the great intellectual ocean whose waves touch the continents of all thought.

INDISPENSABLE BOOKS Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Goethe.

A man may know so much of everything that he knows little of anything. This may sound paradoxical, but, nevertheless, experience proves its truth.

If you are not able to procure a library of the great masterpieces, get at least a few. Read them carefully, intelligently and with a view to enlarging your own literary horizon. Remember a good book cannot be read too often, one of a deteriorating influence should not be read at all. In literature, as in all things else, the good alone should prevail.

big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

A man may know so much of everything that he knows little of anything.

Old people like to give good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.