Quotes About Wisdom

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

You are what you read.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Truth is independent of facts always.