Quotes About Wisdom

The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

From a recumbent position he looked up at Mr Blore and said with immense dignity: 'I'm talking to you, young man. The day of judgment is very close at hand.' Subsiding on to his seat Mr Blore thought to himself: He's nearer the day of judgment than I am! But there, as it happens, he was wrong…

No. It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.

You should never believe anything anyone said without first checking it. Suspect everybody, had been for many years, if not his whole life, one of his first axioms.

I think now, looking back, that I was perhaps a shade intolerant.

Yarg?daki deneyimim bana Tanr?'n?n, inanç, suç ve ceza gibi konular? biz ölümlülere b?rakt???n? ö?retti. Bunlar da uzun, zor süreçler. Kestirme yolu da yok.

We do not agree, eh?" said Poirot. "Well, let us leave it. Time will show which of us is right.

Don't you," I said wearily. "You're a young man. You're zealous in the cause of right. When you get to my age, you'll find that you like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Miss Maple sighed. 'It seemed wonderful at first—unchanged you know—like stepping back into the past—to the part of the past that one had loved and enjoyed.' She paused. 'But of course, it wasn't really like that. I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it?

Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.

After all, this is a free country—" "English people seem to labour under that misapprehension," murmured Poirot. "And I should hope anyone can leave their money exactly as they choose! I think Miss Arundell acted very wisely. Obviously she mistrusted her own relatives and I daresay she had her reasons.

Some day she will know how wise old men are.

Great mistake to say too much. Remember that. Never tell all you know — not even to the person you know best.

If you would use your grey cells, and see the whole case clearly as I do, you too would perceive it, my friend.

Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,' said Captain Wyatt. 'Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun, I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.

You shall know all that I know, but I would prefer that you should come at the truth by your own efforts — not by my leading you by the hand.

Pero recuerde que en esta vida las cosas no son tan bonitas como parecen a primera vista.

I am sixty-nine,' he said. 'Everything I know of life I know at second hand. Sometimes that is very bitter to me. And yet, because of it, I know a good deal.

Mladi ljudi pripadaju svojoj generaciji. Možemo mi misliti da mnogi njihovi potezi nisu mudri, ali moramo prihvatiti njihove odluke.

Melchett is a wise man. He knows that when it is a question of an irate middle-aged lady, there is only one thing to be done—listen to her. When she had said all that she wants to say, there is a chance that she will listen to you.

It's frightening, you know, how soon money goes if you're not clever about it.

Hate me a little if you will. But I think you are one of those who would rather look truth in the face than live in a fool's paradise; and you might not have lived in it so very long.

The wise man does not commit himself. Is not that so?

But talk, however light, however idle, gives away, inevitably, the sort of person you are. The wise criminal would never open his mouth, but criminals are seldom wise and usually vain and they talk a good deal—and so most criminals are caught.