Quotes About Wisdom

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Savoir mal est pire qu'ignorer

Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

Most people my age are dead.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

A person is rich when he lives a joyful balanced life with a clear understanding of the role he is intended to play during his few years on the planet. if he can give and receive love in equal measure, has health and freedom, a touch of wisdom and an unquenchable thirst for living, and on top,of that is fulfilling his true purpose , then he is indeed rich.

One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

All knowledge hurts.

But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don't you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before.

We live and breathe words.

A day doesn't pass that I'm not surprised.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; What is it but the telescope of truth? Which strips the distance of its fantasies, And brings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real!

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist then Pleasure.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

The humblest individual under heaven,   Than might suffice a moderate century through. I knew that nought was lasting, but now even   Change grows too changeable without being new.