Quotes About Wisdom

Which of us turning to look back down the road along which there is no return, could say that we had walked that road as we should have?

I've already seen everything I've never seen. I've already seen everything I haven't yet seen.

Only one thing astonishes me more than the stupidity with which most people live their lives, and that's the intelligence of this stupidity.

Desterrad el error infantil de preguntar el sentido de las cosas o de las palabras. Nada tiene sentido.

Uno lee para saber, inútilmente. Otro se divierte para vivir, inútilmente.

Baste a quem basta o que lhe basta O bastante de lhe bastar! A vida é breve, a alma é vasta: Ter é tardar.

Despedíos del error infantil de preguntar el sentido de las cosas y las palabras. Nada tiene sentido.

Irony is the first sign that our consciousness has become conscious, and it passes through two stages: the one represented by Socrates, when he says, 'All I know is that I know nothing,' and the other represented by Sanches,* when he says, 'I don't even know if I know nothing.

Para el hombre vulgar, sentir es vivir y pensar es saber vivir. Para mí, pensar es vivir y sentir no es más que el alimento del pensar.

Los clasificadores de cosas, que son aquellos hombres de ciencia cuya ciencia consiste sólo en clasificar, ignoran, en general, que lo clasificable es infinito y por lo tanto no se puede clasificar. Pero en lo que consiste mi pasmo es en que ignoren la existencia de clasificables desconocidos, cosas del alma y de la conciencia que se encuentran en los intersticios del conocimiento.

Saber interponerse constantemente entre uno mismo y las cosas es el grado más alto de sabiduría y prudencia.

Since all stoicism is really just a harsher form of epicureanism

Kendimizi tan?d?kça yan?lg?lara düÅŸeriz, kendini tan? diyen kahin, Herakles'in iÅŸlerinden daha zor bir iÅŸ, Sfenks'inkinden daha karanl?k bir bilmece atm?? oluyordu ortaya.

No le he pedido a la vida sino que no me pidiese nada.

To be adept at deluding oneself is the first prerequisite for a statesman. Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

To think of our greatest anxiety as an insignificant event, not only in the life of the universe but also in the life of our own soul, is the beginning of wisdom.

Ä°lerde bir gün gelecek olanlar daha ÅŸimdiden yaÅŸl?yd?; sadece hiç gelmeyecek olanlar gençti.

nothing is what it is, but dreams are always dreams.)

Një njeri, në zotëroftë dijen e vërtetë mund ta shijojë krejt spektaklin e botës ulun mbi një karrige, pa ditë me lexue, pa folë me askënd, veç me anë të përdorimit të shqisave dhe faktit që shpirti të mos dijë me qenë i trishtë.

Singurul avantaj când studiezi e s? te bucuri de ceea ce alÈ›ii nu au spus.

que pesa duramente na alma: é a estupidez que sacrifica vidas e haveres a qualquer coisa inevitavelmente inútil.

Ä°ster savaÅŸmak söz konusu olsun ister ak?l yürütmek, bütün eylemler hatal?d?r; t?pk? insan?n herhangi bir ÅŸey yapmaktan kaç?nmas? gibi. Ah bir bilebilseydim hem hiçbir ÅŸey yapmaman?n, hem de eylemden vazgeçmemenin yolunu! Zaferimi simgeleyen hayal tac?na, yücelenlerin sessizlik asas?na kavuÅŸmuÅŸ olurdum o zaman.

Quem te fez assim tão linda Não o fez para mostrar Que se é mais linda ainda Quando se sabe negar.

Si todo hombre fuera juez, todos los hombres estarían locos