Quotes About Wisdom

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

I conn'd old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.

Caution seldom goes far enough.

The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young.

What ever satisfies the soul is truth.

they may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.

Re-examine all that you have been told... Dismiss that which insults your soul.

Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Quédate hoy conmigo, vive conmigo un día y una noche y te mostraré el origen de todos los poemas. Tendrás entonces todo cuanto hay de grande en la Tierra y en el Sol (existen además millones de soles más allá) y nada tomarás ya nunca de segunda ni de tercera mano, ni mirarás más por los ojos de los muertos, ni te nutrirás con el espectro de los libros.

Beautiful Women Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,   The young are beautiful — but the old are more beautiful than the young.

Asszonyok ülnek vagy mennek – egyikÅ'jük öreg, másikuk fiatal, Szépek a fiatalok! de az öregek még szebbek!

Here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.

Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

The storyteller: he is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame of his story

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind of reading, of runes and hieroglyphs, came into use.

The storyteller: he is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame that is his story.

Podría decirse que los proverbios son ruinas que están en el lugar de viejas historias, y donde, como la hiedra en la muralla, una moraleja trepa sobre un gesto

I don't think how old a person is has anything to do with what he really is himself.