Quotes About Wisdom

Incidentally, common sense is not so common and is the highest praise we give to a chain of logical conclusions.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind

We learn nothing by being right.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.

A vida não é concedida a título permanente. - declarou. - É um privilegio e temos de utilizar o nosso tempo de forma judiciosa.Cabe-nos a todos fazer dela o que pudermos (...)A alma é como um pássaro em voo. Escapa-nos e voa livre de novo. Sem constrangimentos." (pág.323)

The best advice for fighting with a screwed-up person is simple: don't. You cannot be logical with an illogical person. The only way to win is to never, under any circumstances, get pulled into an argument. If you fight, you lose! Questioning choices questions integrity. Suggesting different ideas implies lack of intelligence. Seeking negotiation disputes power. Wanting compromise conveys weakness.

I remember you saying how much people knew that they didn't know they knew.

began to think there was a good deal to be said for

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

Knowledge by suffering entereth,And life is perfected by death.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

The world of books is still the world.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

True knowledge comes only through suffering

For my part, however imperfect my practice may be, I am intimately convinced — and more and more since my long seclusion — that to live in a house with windows on every side, so as to catch both the morning and evening sunshine, is the best and brightest thing we have to do — to say nothing about the justest and wisest. Sympathies are our opportunities of good.

Sentarse tranquilamente bajo la luz de una lámpara con un libro abierto entre las manos, y conversar íntimamente con los hombres de otras generaciones, es un placer que traspasa los límites de lo imaginable

The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.

Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. —QUENTIN CRISP