Quotes About Wisdom

Tanr? kimi yok etmek isterse, önce onun akl?n? al?r.

There's no point in clinging to illusions.

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

Oh, Gram. Don't you think falling in love in one week is about the silliest thing you've ever heard? Not that I'm falling in love, mind you. That's so...so...Harlequin.

Mama was amazing like that; I spent most of my teenage years assuming that she knew nothing about me, and all of my twenties realizing that she knew everything.

yá'ádaat'éhígíí bee hajiidziihgo 'ál'??. A person should only speak words that are good. Saad

Of course those that have charm don't really need brains.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

I rejoiced in the Burgundy. It seemed a reminder that the world was an older and better place than Rex knew, that mankind in its long passion had learned another wisdom than his. By chance I met this same wine again, lunching with my wine merchant in St James's Street in the first Autumn of the war; it had softened and faded in the intervening years, but it still spoke in the pure, authentic accent of its prime, the same words of hope.

the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.

I rejoiced in the Burgundy. It seemed a reminder that the world was an older and better place than Rex knew, that mankind in its long passion had learned another wisdom than his.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

I rejoiced in the Burgundy. It seemed a reminder that the world was an older and better place than Rex knew, that mankind in its long passion had learned another wisdom than his. By chance I met this same wine again, lunching with my wine merchant in St. James's Street, in the first autumn of the war; it had softened and faded in the intervening years, but it still spoke in the pure, authentic accent of its prime, the same words of hope. "I

Lady Marchmain,10 no I am not on her side; but God is, who suffers fools gladly;

If everyone at twenty realized that half his life was to be lived after forty…

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

After all what is brilliance? Merely the tact to sow when no one is looking and reap when every one is.

There were no more wise men; there were no more heroes;

I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Marriage is an error of youth