Quotes About Wisdom

Once I had wondered what it would be like to be an adult. I thought, like all children, that adulthood was accompanied by esoteric secrets, complicated insights, mysteriously acquired skills. But it turned out to be very simple: you were exactly the same, you were still a child, but you had to find a way to look after yourself.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

El sentido común es algo tan raro que su aplicación asombra al mundo, y quienes tienen la habilidad de emplearlo son declarados genios. El genio es, para decir la verdad, un derivado del sentido común.

Read wisely for a good book is a faithful friend.

Realize that the plumpest berries are over the graves.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Actually, we have no problems, we have opportunities for which we should give thanks. An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them…

Know in self that in giving a helpful influence, the magnifying of virtues in others and the minimizing of faults is the beginning of wisdom in dealing with others.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

I'm sorry for him who cannot hear what the tall trees have to say.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

And then I knew I was one of Life's fools, Whom only death would treat as the equal Of other men

Thou wert wise to chisel for me: «Taken from the evil to come».

The truth was this: I did not have the brains.

In youth my wings were strong and tireless, But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the mountains But my weary wings could nto follow my vision- Genius is wisdom and youth.