Quotes About Wisdom

Folk wisdom observes that lovers are fools, lovers are blind; we also speak of a folie a deux because in this mutually projective state, the person is acting not out of a conscious relationship to reality, but out of the archaic and often overwhelming power of personal history.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

I say plan for the future, sure. But dont let the plans for the future that there may not be any of, displace what little life you can live now.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

Have read little and understood less.

Life is too short to read a bad book

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude...

He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him.

His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Quotations every day of the year.

Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less.

Wipe your glasses with what you know.

He would never swing the thurible before the tabernacle as priest. His destiny was to be elusive of social or religious orders. The wisdom of the priest's appeal did not touch him to the quick. He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world.

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.

A learner rather Stephen's answer to Deasy who says You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong. (Episode 2, line 403 in the Gabler edition)

He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world.

Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides

Estaba destinado a aprender su propia sabiduría aparte de los otros o a aprender la sabiduría de los otros por sí mismo, errando entre las asechanzas del mundo.

After sound, light and heat, memory, will and understanding.

Les erreurs sont les portes de la découverte.