Quotes About Wisdom

Suffering is the central fact of life, from his Buddhist viewpoint; it's what we do with it that defines our lives.

To Marcel Duchamp's blithe "There is no solution, because there is no problem," the Japanese visual artist Shigeko Kubota replied, "There is no problem, because there is no solution.

You learned about autumn early.

Dying is the art we have to master, it seems to say— not death; late love settles into us as spring romances never could.

Ed era sempre chiaro che, per vivere, m'era necessario non vivere, restare ingenuo, ignaro.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal of books that a good reader engages in - a reader who knows that every book is the bearer of part of himself and can give him access to it, if only he has the wisdom to not end his journey there.

The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal of books that a good reader engages in - a reader who knows that every book is the bearer of part of himself and can give him access to it, if only he has the wisdom not to end his journey there.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

De mis disparates de juventud lo que más pena me da no es el haberlos cometido, sino el no poder volver a cometerlos.

O pedante compreende sem sentimento profundo, enquanto o mundano usufrui sem compreender.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The true science and study of man is man.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n'ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything .)

C'est le trait terrible du vieillissement : il vous donne bientôt la gaieté du coeur qui permet d'accepter comme allant de soi des retranchements sur les sens et sur le coeur, considérés auparavant comme de monstrueuses avaries.

La religión católica representa, para la civilización europea, el arca de alianza, el cofre del viaje a través del tiempo en que se comprime todo el tesoro de su experiencia y sabiduría

It is not things that trouble us," as Epictetus said, "but our judgment about things

breathe the intellect which embraces all things as if it were the surrounding air....

Podríamos decir, además, que hay en la humanidad un estoicismo universal, quiero decir con ello que la actitud que llamamos «estoica» es una de las posibilidades permanentes y fundamentales del ser humano, cuando busca la sabiduría.