Quotes About Wisdom

É il cervello, le piccole cellule grigie» si batté una mano sulla fronte, «la cosa su cui bisogna basarsi. I sensi inducono in errore. Bisogna cercare la verità dal di dentro, non dal di fuori.»

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?

Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

I may," said Poirot in a completely unconvinced tone, "be wrong." Morton smiled. "But that doesn't often happen to you?" "No. Though I will admit - yes, I am forced to admit - that it has happened to me." "I must say I'm glad to hear it! To be always right must be sometimes monotonous." "I do not find it so," Poirot assured him.

It is the brain, the little grey cells" — he topped his forehead — "on which one must rely. The senses mislead.

But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.

And anyway, a man has no business to let himself be made a fool of by a woman. It's his own look out if he does.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespeare is ruined for most people by having been made to learn it at school; you should see Shakespeare as it was written to be seen, played on the stage. There you can appreciate it quite young, long before you take in the beauty of the words and of the poetry.

But remember this: Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and lo, in a minute they are become discoloured cornelians. . . Her voice deepened as she quoted: "A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream, and death comes as the end. . . .

you have the beautiful and unsuspicious mind. Years do not change that in you! You perceive a fact and mention the solution of it in the same breath without noticing that you are doing so!

Edward turned to Miss Marple. "It's like this, you see. As Uncle Mathew grew older, he got more and more suspicious. He didn't trust anybody." "Very wise of him," said Miss Marple. "The depravity of human nature is unbelievable.

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire , it comes later.

But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again.

Of course,' said Miss Marple, 'a lot of people are stupid. And stupid people get found out, whatever they do. But there are quite a number of people who aren't stupid, and one shudders to think of what they might accomplish unless they had very strongly rooted principles.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam. "Even if it's something they don't know they know.

One doesn't want to die young. Sometimes one has to.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

Young people belong to their generation. We may think they're unwise in many of their doings, but we have to accept their decisions.

dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But nobody relishes the process.

Love is not everything, Mademoiselle," Poirot said gently. "It is only when we are young that we think it is.

One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge.

Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex Restarick

One should never go by what people say.

So many things are difficult," said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.