Quotes About Wisdom

It is so comical to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

When you're fifty, you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.

The best way to bring up some children is short.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Augustus Caesar

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.