Quotes About Wisdom

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.

Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing…Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.

Speech is silver but silence is golden.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.