Quotes About Wisdom

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

Les livres sont des amis froids et sûrs.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Let's not bring flame where light is enough.

Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God.

I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.

As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

He never went out without a book under his arm and he often came home with two.

Sikap hati-hati adalah anak sulung kebijaksanaan.

where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skeleton, was the result. This was the advantage of this kind of wisdom and abstinence; the style was so sober that it became lean.

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.

A book is so soon made, costs so little, and may go so far! Why should we surprised that all human thought flows that way?

He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.

Viaggiare è nascere e morire in ogni momento. Forse, nella più vaga regione della sua mente, faceva accostamenti tra quei mutevoli orizzonti e l'esistenza umana. Tutte le cose della vita sono continuamente in fuga davanti a noi. Gli ottenebramenti e le luci si frammischiano: dopo un abbagliamento, un'eclisse; si guarda, ci si affretta, si tendono le mani per afferrare ciò che passa; ogni evento è una svolta della strada; e d'un tratto si è vecchi.

Books are remote but reliable friends.

Terminar este duelo, amalgamar la idea pura con la realidad humana, hacer penetrar pacíficamente el derecho en el hecho y e hecho en el derecho, es el trabajo de los sabios.

It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing.

Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science and wisdom grows thin.

Make thought a whirlwind.

A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.