Quotes About Wisdom

It was also Jacque who told me that children didn't come out of their mother's tummies. As she put it, "Where the ingredients go in is where the finished product comes out!"

The barber learns to shave at the beards of fools.

It were vain for me to endeavor to interrupt the Silence. She cannot be done into English. For six thousand years men have translated her with what fidelity belonged to each, and still she is little better than a sealed book. A man may run on confidently for a time, thinking he has her under his thumb, and shall one day exhaust her, but he too must at last be silent...

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

The Arctic expresses the sum total of all wisdom. Silence. Nothing but silence...

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.

Silence is the parent of wise thoughts, — the mark of a well composed mind.

"Where little is done, little is said," observed Sheikh Hassan, "and Silence is the mother of Truth..."

The silent man is the best to listen to.

Silence was never written down.

The best answer to anger is silence.

the wisdom of spiritual direction is precisely that we refuse to stand between God and the person who so needs to hear God for himself, for herself.

Richard Whitney wrote his own requiem for the Crash. "A thing compounded of both wisdom and folly, of both heroism and fright, of stubborn persistence and impatient irresolution, of tragically shattered hopes and ambitions and of incongruous and unique episodes not without at times a certain humorous aspect.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals

Es sind die kleinen Dinge, die die Welt vergrößern.

Wie tief im Menschen leben jede jener Fabeln: wurzelt, auf welche die großen alten Werke gebaut sind.

Versteht sich, muß er sie bezahlen !" sagte er sich; aber er konnte schon wissen, daß er seinen Söhnen nie etwas zurückforderte und daß sie ihm nie etwas zu erstatten begehrten. Das ist Eltern gesund und läßt sie zu hohen Jahren kommen, auf daß sie erleben, wie ihre Kinder wiederum von den Enkeln lustig geschröpft werden, und so geht es von Vater auf Sohn und alle bleiben bestehen und haben guten Appetit.

Jugend hat keine Tugend

Praise and esteem bring about skill where skill deserves comendation. When wisdom is adorned with praise it blossoms in profusion.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Nicht die Wahrheit, in deren Besitz irgend ein Mensch ist oder zu sein vermeinet, sondern die aufrichtige Mühe, die er angewandt hat, hinter die Wahrheit zu kommen, macht den Wert des Menschen.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.