Quotes About Wisdom

Ciertamente, el amor es la madre de la sabiduría, pero la pasión lo es de la estupidez.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

You're very old, aren't you?" "Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

It was actually Nadine who'd insisted that I come with her, telling me that I wasn't social enough, that real life was not lived in books, that there was nothing wrong with a little lightness, a little carefree partying. She was right. Maybe if I'd listened to her a lot earlier, I wouldn't have missed out on my youth.

Use your heat wisely and insulate well.

Dis Papa, c'est quoi le mal? C'est la bêtise des hommes qui parfois vont se perdre Dans de sentiers de pierre Et prennent des cailloux pour les lancer en l'air

Le berger doit toujours songer au lendemain. Tout ce qui appartient à hier appartient à la mort, et ce qui importe c'est de vivre, tu le sais bien, Brodeck, toi qui est revenu d'où on ne revient pas.

Don't forget, Brodeck: it's ignorance that always triumphs, not knowledge.

Sans doute ne savait-elle pas que lorsqu'on a quitté les Enfers, jamais il ne faut s'en retourner vers eux.

Mon cher et vieux maître Limmat, que faisiez-vous donc là, derrière cette table pareille à celle d'un tribunal ? Vous aussi vous saviez donc ?

Mais ici-bas, mieux vaut ne jamais avoir raison. C'est une chose qu'on vous fait ensuite toujours payer très cher.

Prisimenu pagalvojau, kad akys nepavaldžios amžiui ir kad mes visad mirštame su vaiko akimis, kurios vien? dien? atsiv?r? pasauliui ir su juo nebesiskyr?.

Ne cherche pas ce qui n'existe pas ou n'existe plus

I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

La mort, c'est un peu comme la connerie. Le mort, lui, il ne sait pas qu'il est mort. Ce sont les autres qui sont tristes. Le con, c'est pareil.

empowered by those values, when we soon encounter them as we develop, or when they keep crossing our paths as we grow old.

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

Learn when's a good time to shut up

The first step towards understanding God's guidance is to understand the guiding God. We need to explore his character and the way he achieves his plans before we can tackle the nitty-gritty issues we are all so interested in.

Trying to get to the answer before one has understood all the right questions is a prime source of error in human affairs.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.