Quotes About Wisdom

Tuzaklar? tan?mak için bir tilki, kurtlar? korkutmak için de aslan olmak gerekir.

Así pasa en las cosas del Estado: los males que nacen en él, cuando se los descubre a tiempo, lo que sólo es dado al hombre sagaz, se los cura pronto; pero ya no tienen remedio cuando, por no haberlos advertido, se los deja crecer hasta el punto de que todo el mundo los ve.

Y sucede aquí lo mismo que dicen los médicos acerca de la tisis, que al comienzo del mal es fácil de curar y difícil de diagnosticar, pero, con el paso del tiempo, al no haber sido diagnosticada ni medicada desde el principio, se vuelve fácil de diagnosticar y difícil de curar.

I enter the ancient courts of rulers who have long since died. There I am warmly welcomed, and I feed on the only food I find nourishing, and was born to savor. I am not ashamed to talk to them, and to ask them to explain their actions. And they, out of kindness, answer me. Four hours go by without my feeling any anxiety. I forget every worry. I am no longer afraid of poverty, or frightened of death. I live entirely through

Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

One Must Be A Fox In Order To Recognize Traps, And A Lion To Frighten Off Wolves

instead of praying for some new holy man to save you, learn the way to Hell in order to steer clear of it yourself.

expression, zeh kanah hokhmah, literally, "this one has acquired wisdom.

in Hebrew, where the word for "old," zaken, is an acronym formed from the expression, zeh kanah hokhmah, literally, "this one has acquired wisdom.

Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

And I said well luckily I was mature and old enough to take this success at my age. It was bullshit.

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous. Confucius, LúnyÅ­ (Analects), ii. 15

Bracelets do not embellish man, nor necklaces bright as the moon; bathing, cosmetics, garland, head-dress, none can add a whit. Man's one true embellishment is language kept perfected: finery must perish, but eternal the refinement of fine language. Bharthari, ii.17–20

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

Aren't you frightened? Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup would, or to explain that we can't presume to understand the Lord's plan. She looked away. Yes, she finally said, I'm frightened all the time. Then why don't you act like it? I do. I just do it in private. Because you don't trust me? No, she said, because I know you're frightened, too.

I just tell people what they already know, but are afraid to admit to themselves.

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

grown-ups always say that things are complicated.