Quotes About Wisdom

The secret of life is knowing and applying the secrets of life.

There are battles we choose not to fight. Not because we are weak but because we are strong. Not because they are hard, but because they are wrongly structured.

Truth is the most valuable secret.

Truth unlocks life's best doors.

Truth, the least desired thing, is the most desirable.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college.

Big people monopolize the listening. Small people monopolize the talking. Proverbs 29:20 "Seest thou a man that has hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than him".

Happy the man who early learns the difference between his wishes and his powers.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

We in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes doubt.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Tot ce sclipe?te ?ine doar o clip?, ce-i cu temei în veci va fi p?strat.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge- it is the end.

CHORUS Gird thee for the high endeavor; Shun the crowd's ignoble ease! Fails the spirit never, Wise to think, and prompt to seize. Goethe, Faust, Part II, act 1, 50–53

E?er gönüller gerçekten ayd?nl?ksa, güne? ?????na gerek kalmaz.Ba?kalar?n?n esirgedi?i ?eyi biz kendi kalbimizde buluyoruz..

Lo que importa más nunca debe de estar a merced de lo que importa menos.

How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted. How clearly I still see it, and yet show no sign of improvement.

nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action

Sobald du dir vertraust, sobald weißt du zu leben.

All theory is gray, but the tree of life, my friend, is green.

L'héritage qui t'est venu de ton ancêtre, Il te faut l'acquérir pour le mieux posséder. Conserver sans besoin, c'est se donner un maître Et rien, hors du présent, ne peut nous profiter.

Believe me, dearest, what men call intelligent Often is pedantry and self-conceit.

Yet here poor fool for all my lore, I stand no wiser than before