Quotes About Wisdom

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Never put thyself in the way of temptation: even David could not resist it.

The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

Truth doesn't make a noise.

I hope I die before I get old

Reading by itself is certainly not sufficient to breed wistfulness; a natural-born peculiarity of wisdom ought to exist in one's very brain cells, and reflected on his very deep beliefs and thoughts..

This book is not of today or of the future. It tells of no place. It serves no cause, party or class. It has a moral which grows on the pillar of understanding: "The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart." —T. vH.

You've been making the wrong mistakes.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by… What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

YOU'VE GOT TO DIG IT TO DIG IT, YOU DIG? ... ~ Thelonious Monk

Once, at Fredensborg, when Prince Christopher cried out that he wished he were grown up, his mother, the sensible Queen Olga, rebuked him. 'Remember these years,' she said quietly, 'you will always think back on them as the happiest of your life.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Die Jugend, auch in ihren Fehlern ist sie noch schön und liebenswürdig, und das Alter, auch in seinen Tugenden taugt es nicht viel.

Ja, Herr Baron, es gibt viele Wege, die zu zu Gott führen, und es gibt viele Wege, die zu Glück führen, dessen bin ich in meinem Herzen gleicherweise gewiss. Und der eine Weg ist gut und der andere Weg ist gut. Aber jeder gute Weg muss ein offner Weg und ein gerader Weg sein und in der Sonne liegen und ohne Morast und ohne Sumpf und ohne Irrlicht. Auf die Wahrheit kommt es an, und auf die Zuverlässigkeit kommt es an und auf die Ehrlichkeit.

Wer gerade gewachsen ist, ist für Leichtsinn. Überhaupt ohne Leichtsinn ist das ganze Leben keinen Schuss Pulver wert.«

Die Jugend, auch in ihren Fehlern ist sie noch schön und liebenswürdig, und das Alter, auch in seinen Tugenden taugt es nicht viel. (S.52)

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

Sometimes I think the point of old age is to be embarrassed about one's youth.

P]erhaps in this case, as often, the most courageous resolution might have been at the same time the most prudent

Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

The un-naïve thinker knows how far he remains from the object of his thinking, and yet he must always talk as if he had it entirely. This brings him to the point of clowning. He must not deny his clownish traits, least of all since they alone can give him hope for what is denied him.

Do not dismiss what you do not understand