Quotes About Wisdom

El hombre es la medida de todas las cosas», dijo el filósofo griego Protágoras, una línea que bien podría describir también el espíritu de la nueva era que se abría en Europa.

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always." Albert Schweitzer

People with healthy well-developed egos, especially those that are well-read, sometimes are the toughest for me to communicate with. It's because you are so smart that you will have some difficulty unlearning the things you must let go of before you'll be able to truly hear what I'm saying.

Trust in God but tie your camel.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene

La adversidad es el primer camino hacia la verdad" Lord Byron

No es la respuesta que ilumina, sino la pregunta." Eugene Ionesco

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man's chest hair. It wasn't worth it.

The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience.

Poseidon ruled over the sea and was responsible for earthquakes. Athena was the goddess of wisdom

Modern science begins with Heraclitus of Ephesus.

the way to truth was through the exercise of reason and rational judgement.

Pythagoras of Samos, in the later sixth century BCE

Isocrates was ninety years old in 346 BCE but as active an opinion-former as ever.

Among the last words that Isocrates ever wrote, before his death at the age of ninety-eight

For Socrates, the goal of all human beings was arete.

Truths are best perceived after looking at all sides.

Asino tu nascesti, ad asino morrai. [An ass you were born; an ass you will die.]