Quotes About Wisdom

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté.

turn your face towards the lances of rain, the soul towards ancient wisdom. And

El cerebro del hombre está atiborrado de trapos.

So much the worse for the wood if it finds that it has become a violin, and I feel nothing but contempt for those ignoramuses who argue over things that they know nothing about.

Lebensklugheit bedeutet: Alle Dinge möglichst wichtig, aber keines völlig ernst zu nehmen.

We all act parts, and wise is he who knows it.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

wall. But one day Rusty Wren told him that his cousin, Long Bill Wren,