Quotes About Wisdom

Aprender no es saber: de aquí nacen los eruditos y los sabios: la memoria hace a los unos, y la filosofía a los otros.

I always said that this cadet from Gascony was a well of wisdom, murmured Athos;

Une illusion de moins, c'est une vérité de plus.

You are forgetting the person who advised him.' 'Pah! If one were to be held to account for every remark one lets fall …' 'Yes, when it falls point downwards.

La jeunesse est une fleur dont l'amour est le fruit...

Apprendere non vuol dire sapere; vi sono i sapienti e i savi. È la memoria che fa gli uni, è la filosofia che fa gli altri».

S? înveÅ£i nu înseamn? s? ÅŸtii. Exist? oameni care ÅŸtiu ÅŸi oameni care cunosc. Unii sunt ajutaÅ£i de memorie, ceilalÅ£i de filosofie. - Dar filosofia nu se poate înv??a? -Filosofia nu se înva??. Filosofia e suma tuturor ÅŸtiinÅ£elor pe care un geniu le pune in aplicare.

a man, who, like Satan, thought himself, for an instant, equal to God; but who now acknowledges, with Christian humility, that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom.

I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.

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

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

Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess. Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Quién sabe además si el genovés no era uno de esos hombres que tienen bastante talento para no saber nunca mas que lo que deben saber, ni creer nunca mas que lo que les importa creer?

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live..... the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Cuando se vive con locos, es preciso también aprender a ser insensato.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.

old age is boastful; and it is pardonable for old men to praise themselves when others no longer do it.

Ah! ¡Joven! ¡Joven! ¿Algún amorcillo? Os repito que os andéis con tiento; la mujer es, ha sido y será siempre causa de la perdición de los hombres.

El niño es pequeño, y contiene al hombre; el cerebro es estrecho, y alberga al pensamiento; el ojo es sólo un punto, y abarca leguas.

Aramis: Ieri ho provato a fare penitenza con quella frusta che vedete appesa al muro e il dolore mi ha impedito di continuare questo pio esercizio D'Artagnan: Ma caro amico, dove si è mai sentito dire che una ferita di arma da fuoco si guarisce a forza di frustate? Siete scusabile solo perché la malattia vi indeboliva il cervello

L'homme ne sera parfait que lorsqu'il saura créer et détruire comme Dieu ; il sait déjà détruire, c'est la moitié du chemin de fait.

Dite all'Angelo che veglierà sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, simile a Satana, per un momento si è creduto simile a Dio e ha riconosciuto, con tutta l'umiltà di un cristiano, che nelle mani di Dio soltanto sta il supremo potere e la infinita sapienza

A înv??a nu înseamn? a È™ti. Exist? È™tiutori È™i exist? savanÈ›i: pe unii îi face memoria, pe alÈ›ii filozofia.