Quotes About Wisdom

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

The worst men often give the best advice.

All ways are byeways but the way of God, So broad, not thought a road.

Kindness is wisdom.

You cannot not know history.

La sabiduria consiste en saber cuando evitar al perfeccion

Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.

Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

This is the meaning of life, my friend. To know when you are well off and to hate or envy no man.

Diz-se que a loucura é simplesmente a capacidade de ver o futuro. E se soubéssemos agora o que saberemos então, provavelmente seria suficiente para nos pôr a todos aos gritos. Na vida, o segredo é manter as duas coisas separadas o maior tempo possível.

O homem era advogado e, por vezes, quando nos armamos em espertos com advogados, eles chamam-lhe desrespeito e metem-nos na cadeia.

If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much.

Is that what we are? Fools?" "Certainly. But at least we know we're fools. And in today's Germany, that counts as a kind of wisdom." •

If you make yourself like sugar, the ants will eat you.

They say eyes clear with age.

They say eyes clear with age, As dew clarifies air To sharpen evenings, As if time put an edge Round the last shape of things To show them there; The many-levelled trees, The long soft tides of grass Wrinkling away the gold Wind-ridden waves- all these, They say, come back to focus As we grow old. - Long Sight In Age

He [Samuel Butler] made a practise of doing the forks last when washing up, on the grounds that he might die before he got to them. This is very much his principle of 'eating the grapes downwards', so that however many grapes you have eaten the next is always the best of the remainder.

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.