Quotes About Wisdom

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely,

Though never losing his taste for seclusion, he developed a talent for getting on with people in all walks of life, and those who came to consult or visit him were impressed as much by his courtesy and humour as by his wisdom and the quality of his mind.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

Don't jump in with two feet where truly informed people tread with care.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Leemos porque, aunque leer no sea indispensable para vivir, la vida es más agradable, más clara, más rica para aquellos que leen que para aquellos que no lo hacen. En un sentido más simple todavía: vivir es más fácil para aquellos que saben leer, no solamente las noticias, las instrucciones de uso, las ordenanzas, los periódicos y las papeletas de voto, sino también los textos literarios.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.