Quotes About Wisdom

Ah, lo que yo sé, lo puede saber cualquiera: mi corazón lo tengo yo solamente.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others.

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

He serves me somewhat darkly, now, I grant, Yet will he soon attain the light of reason.

O glücklich, wer noch hoffen kann, aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen! Was man nicht weiß, das eben brauchte man, und was man weiß, kann man nicht brauchen.

Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

MARGARETE. Yes, out of sight is out of mind. It's second nature with you, gallantry; But you have friends of every kind, Cleverer by far, oh much, than me. FAUST. Dear girl, believe me, what's called cleverness Is mostly shallowness and vanity.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion!

Mephistopholese: But we, more cunning in our cares, Must take our joys before they fade.

Here the old man said with a smile: 'Love does not rule, but it trains, and that is more.

Nothing distresses me more than to see men torment each other; particularly when in the flower of their age, in the very season of pleasure, they waste their few short days of sunshine in quarrels and disputes, and only perceive their error when it is too late to repair it.

Age doesn't make us childish, as they say, It finds that we're still children.

Estará escrito en el destino del hombre que sólo puede ser feliz antes de tener razón o después de haberla perdido? ¡Pobre insensato! Envidio tu locura, envidio el laberinto mental en que te pierdes.

Una palabra sensata se atrofia en un oído duro.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren sich weiß Rechenschaft zu geben, bleib im Dunkeln unerfahren, mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.