Quotes About Wisdom

Truth isn't invented; it's revealed…The one who knows the truth has to tell us what it is.

in Socrates' words, he had committed sin by failing to know what was false and what was true.

But at this moment he surely knows sorrow No less than the wise and the old. It seems that his eyes have begun to grow narrow, And their brilliant light is now cold.

I didn't know that the moon was in on everything.

Instead of wisdom -- experience, bare, That does not slake thirst, is not wet. Youth's gone -- like a Sunday prayer. Is it mine to forget? On how many desert roads have searched I With him who wasn't dear for me, How many bows gave in church I For him, who had well loved me. I've become more oblivious than inviting, Quietly years swim. Lips unkissed, eyes unsmiling -- Nothing will give me back him.

I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against time of need.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

So yes, keep the lid on, buy old books, read old books, seriously consider those scrolls and clay tablets.

At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

Love, it seemed, made beasts of men. How wise he'd been to avoid it all these years.

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

The blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was just a boy. We must believe in God, he told me, because if we don't we will have to believe in man, and then we will only be disappointed.

On vieillit et on réalise qu'il n'y a rien de plus sexy que la gentillesse.

But, you see, if being an intellectual means you like to learn, that you're curious and attentive and can admire things and be moved by them and try to understand how it all hangs together, and try to go to bed a bit less stupid than the day before, well, then yes: not only am I an intellectual but I'm proud to be one. Really proud, even.

Mais tu n'es pas aussi abruti qu'on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l'es?

La vida me había enseñado que era mejor no pedirle demasiado. Lo que acabábamos de vivir era como un regalo. Y ya está, ya lo habíamos abierto.

Lo que impide que la gente conviva no es la diferencia, sino la estupidez

Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

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A Path in the Woods from a New Name" I don't trust the truth of memories because what leaves us departs forever There's only one current of this sacred river but I still want to remain faithful to my first astonishments to recognize as wisdom the child's wonder and to carry in myself until the end a path in the woods of my childhood dappled with patches of sunlight