Quotes About Wisdom

On ne trouve les diamants que dans les ténèbres de la terre; on ne trouve les vérités que dans les profondeurs de la pensée.

Enfin, il y a un livre, un livre qui semble d'un bout à l'autre une émanation supérieure, un livre qui est pour l'univers ce que le Koran est pour l'islamisme, ce que les Védas sont pour l'Inde, un livre qui contient toute la sagesse humaine éclairée par toute la sagesse divine, un livre que la vénération des peuples appelle le livre, la Bible !

Amare o aver amato basta: non chiedete nulla in seguito, perché non si possono trovare altre perle fra le pieghe tenebrose della vita.

La liberté commence là où l'ignorance finit.

Ogni bocca di saggio che si complimenta con un altro è come un vaso di fiele mielato.

Cuando se acordaba de sus opiniones anteriores, que eran sólo de ayer y que, no obstante, le parecían ya tan antiguas, se indignaba y sonreía.

Trí tu? giàu lên nh? cái nó nh?n ???c. Con tim giàu lên nh? cái nó cho Ä'i

the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel after a long life.

This ideal was realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old.

And even to those who deny supernatural incarnations, what does the crucifix represent? The killing of a man of wisdom.

El problema nuestro no es que nos vamos a morir; es que no sabemos como vivir.

Serious men, grave persons and reasonable people; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry

The wise man does not grow old, but ripes.

O amor é uma criança de seis mil anos, que pode usar de compridas barbas brancas. Matusalém ao pé de Cupido é um fedelho. Há sessenta séculos que o homem e a mulher vencem todos os obstáculos, amando-se. O diabo, que é fino, entrou a odiar o homem, porém, o homem, que ainda é mais fino, entrou a amar a mulher. Deste modo tem conseguido fazer mais bem do que o mal que o diabo lhe tem causado!

On the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar. Tempus edax, homo edacior*; which I should be glad to translate thus: time is blind, man is stupid.      *  Time is a devourer; man, more so.

And this is the note: "Oh Thou who art! "Ecclesiastes names thee the Almighty; Maccabees names thee Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty; Baruch names thee Immensity; the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth; John names thee Light; the book of Kings names thee Lord; Exodus calls thee Providence; Leviticus, Holiness; Esdras, Justice; Creation calls thee God; man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, and that is the most beautiful of all thy names.

Bien lire l'univers, c'est bien lire la vie.

Asemeni unui mut care ?tie un secret, natura pare uneori c? vrea s? ne spun? totul.

Hay muchas bocas que hablan y pocas cabezas que piensan.

There is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth.

She was wiser than she'd been before. Now she knew how fragile life and love were. Maybe she would love him for only this day, or maybe for only the next week, or maybe until she was an old, old woman. Maybe he would be the love of her life... or her love for the duration of this war... or maybe he would only be her first love. All she really knew was that in this terrible, frightening world, she had stumbled into something unexpected. And she would not let it go again.

Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth.

That was her mistake. She'd pinned her happiness to a teenage girl's chest. Idiot. The realization made her almost smile. She certainly knew better than that.

A thing can be true and not the truth, now shush.