Quotes About Wisdom

I have always been like the Greeks and didn't know.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterward.

He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.

You have less restraint rather than more as you grow older. Think it over and alter yourself, or we shan't have happy lives.

Fa niente, sono vecchia

One knew that she worshipped the past, and that the instinctive wisdom the past can alone bestow had descended upon her - that wisdom to which we give the clumsy name of aristocracy

Como é que tu achas que é o mundo das pessoas crescidas? -Não sei dizer. Sou um rapaz - disse, com muita sinceridade. - São muito traiçoeiras, sir? -------------~ Mr. Ducie (professor) e Maurice p.13, MAURICE - E.M. FORSTER, Livros Cotovia, 1989, esgotado, tradução: Jorge Ayres Roza de Oliveira

Money's educational. It's far more educational than the things it buys.

What does one want with dusty economic books, which have made the world no better, ...

O Reitor veio em auxílio dos dois sunningtonianos [Maurice e Chapman]. Disse ao seu jovem primo [Risley]: - Estás a ser insensato quanto à memória. Confudes aquilo que é importante com aquilo que marca. Sem dúvida que o Chapman e o Hall [Maurice] se lembrarão sempre que te conheceram. ----------------------------------------------------- You confuse what's important with what's impressive. P. 35, MAURICE, E.M. FORSTER

You are young, dears, and however clever young people are, and however many books they read, they will never guess what it feels like to grow old.

his friends are as young and as ignorant as himself. They are full of the wine of life. But they have not tasted the cup—let us call it the teacup—of experience, which has made men of Mr. Pembroke's type what they are. Oh, that teacup! To be taken at prayers, at friendship, at love, till we are quite sane, efficient, quite experienced, and quite useless to God or man. We must drink it, or we shall die. But we need not drink it always. Here is our problem and our salvation.

efforts not so much to acquire knowledge as to dispel a little of the darkness by which we and all our acquisitions are surrounded.

she had outgrown stimulants, and was passing from words to things.

You can't fight Medusa with anything else. If you ask me what the Spirit of Life is, or to what it is attached, I can't tell you. I only tell you, watch for it. Myself I've found it in books. Some people find it out of doors or in each other. Never mind. It's the same spirit, and I trust myself to know it anywhere, and to use it rightly.

Passion is sanity.

I knew it," cried Helen. "I told you so. It is the little things one bungles at. The big, real ones are nothing when they come.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

So long as we learn it doesn't matter who teaches us, does it?

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

how thoughtful is thoughtful enough.... how much thinking does thinking over ...