Quotes About Wisdom

Whenever we look around the world, we see smart leaders – in politics, in business, in media – making terrible decisions. What they're lacking is not IQ, but wisdom. Which is no surprise; it has never been harder to tap into our inner wisdom, because in order to do so, we have to disconnect from all our omnipresent devices – our gadgets, our screens, our social media – and reconnect with ourselves.

e sabe, mais do que ninguém, que sua alma é um velho catre, cheio de insensatez e de solércia.

Quem banca o Carneiro, e não o homem, a Onça chega por trás e come.

We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.

He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow, and in much wisdom is much grief.

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

magic is about listening to what's inside you and the messages the Divine and nature have for you.

To each their own. One must live each day so that there are no regrets.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

The old are in a second childhood.

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.

Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.

Do not take a blind guide.

You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Old men are children for a second time.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Open your mind before your mouth