Quotes About Wisdom

Old age must have endless avenues, stretching away and away down its darkness, she supposed, and now one door opened and then another.

I knew my cases and my genders; I could know everything in the world if I wished.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falcified.

For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy;

She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged.

Flush valóságos bölcs - írta nÅ'vérének Mrs. Browning; s talán a görögökre gondolt, akik úgy vélték, a boldogság a szenvedések útjának végén vár ránk. Ilyen az igazi filozófus: ruhája nincs ugyan, de nincs bolhája sem.

But the doctors were hardly wiser then than they are now, and after prescribing rest and exercise, starvation and nourishment, society and solitude, that he should lie in bed all day and ride forty miles between lunch and dinner, together with the usual sedatives and irritants, diversified, as the fancy took them, with possets of newt's slobber on rising, and draughts of peacock's gall on going to bed, they left him to himself, and gave it as their opinion that he had been asleep for a week.

Querer tornar felizes os filhos, antes do tempo, é talvez uma imprudência

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

The subject of autobiography is always self-definition, but it cannot be self-definition in a void. The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage with the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom—or rather the movement towards it—that counts.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.

Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.

When I hear a critic speaking of an author's sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle even though we must keep a little aloof, a little detached when reading.

anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past

Both were diverted by life's young fumblings, both saddened by the wisdom of time

To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Easy, you know, does it, son.