Quotes About Wisdom

Vedete, così la penso io: se al bene che vorrei fare si avvicina troppo un grande male, allora preferisco non fare affatto il bene. Perché il male noi sappiamo benissimo qual è, il bene molto meno.»

Nicht die Kinder bloß, speist man mit Märchen ab.

If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand.

The Sayings of Confucius: "At fifteen I thought only of study; at thirty I began playing my role; at forty I was sure of myself; at fifty I was conscious of my position in the universe; at sixty I was no longer argumentative; and now at seventy I can follow my heart's desire without violating custom."1

Just coming out of your mother's womb does not make you a human being. - Just getting old doesn't make you wise.

the Black Tortoise

Lissy always thought she knew everything.

Science and knowledge changed from year to year, but there had not been wanting those in every age who had found God by searching for Him with all their hearts, and by taking Him at His Word.

My dear, no one knows the power of good sense. It hasn't been built up or experimented with sufficiently.

Rosie, ah Rosie," dedi bana bir gün. "Gül yüzündeki saatten anlad???m kadar?yla, otuzuna gelmiÅŸ olmal?s?n." (s. 17)

retrospective smartness

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the northeast playground, where I met a dozen young mothers intelligently handling their little ones. In order to prepare them, meaning no harm, I said, In fifteen years, you girls will be like me, wrong in everything

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman."

Os livros idiotas animam a gente. Se não fossem eles, nem sei quem se atreveria a começar.

The truth of God's Word cannot be subject to the puny light of man's self-centred reason

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

The way to avoid the tragedies of the past is not to let them happen to begin with.

A wise man of Old Earth had once claimed that science would destroy mankind, not through its weapons of mass destruction, but through finally proving that there was no god.

There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge

Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant." - First Chaplain Erebus

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Ahzek Ahriman

There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always "over there", but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp.