Quotes About Wisdom

An all-wise Providence permits not sinners to escape thus easily from the punishment they have merited on earth, but reserves them to aid his own designs, using them as instruments whereby to work his vengeance on the guilty.

She crammed so much knowledge into her head to alleviate the weight in her heart

misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.

Philosophy cannot be taught. Philosophy is the union of all acquired knowledge and the genius that applies it: philosophy is the shining cloud upon which Christ set His foot to go up into heaven.

apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants : c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. (p. 183)

lo mejor es enemigo de lo bueno.

Abbé Faria: "... to learn is not to know; there are learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other. Edmond Dantès: "But can I not learn philosophy as well as other things?" "My son, philosophy, as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.

but philosophy at half-past ten at night is somewhat late;

If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important." "You

So is it true, what our enemies say about us: nothing learned, nothing forgotten? (Talleyrand)

Vivid, pues, y sed dichosos, hijos queridos de mi corazón, y no olvidéis nunca que hasta el día en que Dios se digne descifrar el porvenir al hombre, toda la sabiduría humana estará resumida en dos palabras: ¡Confiar y esperar! Vuestro amigo, Edmundo Dantes, Conde de Montecristo.

until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, - `Wait and hope.' Your friend

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God designs to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - Wait and hope. - Edmond Dantès

Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after having watched its silent growth

all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'—Your

Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men.

all human wisdom is summed up in two words? — `Wait and hope.

I found that with one hundred and fifty well- chosen books, a man possesses a complete summary of all human knowledge, or at least all that a man need really know.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and muttering the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Aika tuo selvyyttä. Asiat, jotka vielä eilen näyttivät hämäriltä, ovatkin huomenna päivänselviä.