Quotes About Wisdom

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!

The supreme vice is shallowness.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Those who go beneath the surface, do so at their peril.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Know your enemy, know yourself.

Above his desk he tacked a line he remembered from the Persian poet, Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

Nothing, he knew, was ever free.

Aber das ist das Problem mit dem Alter: Man hat ein Gefühl, aber kein Datum. Und wenn man das Datum ausgräbt, verliert man das Gefühl.

not many follicles among the oracles.

Het enige wat je over oorlog moet weten, zoon, is: Niet gaan. "The only thing you need to know about war, son, is: Don't go.

The overexamined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

Mesdames, un conseil. Si vous cherchez un homme beau, riche et intelligent... Prenez-en trois ! lol

The only interesting thing, said François Mitterrand, is to live.

Philosophie bedeutet, sein Leben zu denken und sein Denken zu leben. Besser denken um besser zu leben.

Men scorn what they don't understand.

No procuro saber las respuestas, procuro comprender las preguntas.

Aprender sin pensar es inútil. Pensar sin aprender peligroso