Quotes About Wisdom

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Necio es el mortal que, creyéndose siempre feliz, se abandona al placer: la fortuna, cual furiosa delirante, salta aquí y allá, y a ninguno concede perpetua dicha

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgement.

If you have an opinion, and that opinion is weak, do not consider it wisdom. - Tiresias to Pentheus

For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

To have learnt to live on the common level Is better. No grand life for me, Just peace and quiet as I grow old. The middle way, neither great nor mean, Is best by far, in name and practice. To be rich and powerful brings no blessing; Only more utterly Is the prosperous house destroyed, when gods are angry.

????: ??? ???? ?????? ???: ???? ??? ????? ??? ???? ?????? ??: Vrati se! Makar kao sen, makar kao san!

Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain.

Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery.

And I do not fear to say that those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things Are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know Bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

Cine ?tie, se poate ca via?a s? fie moarte iar moartea s? fie via??.

I was foolish and young, before that, viewing the matter closely, I saw what it is to beget children.

Sentir respeto es sabiduría.

Any man of good sense should never have his children taught to be unusually clever.

Would ye be wise, ye Cities, fly from war!

Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust.

For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.

Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to an end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house

This thy wit hath no wit.