Quotes About Wisdom

Give him a book, and he will read all day long.

her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usually is.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.

but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero.

W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

I will not allow books to prove anything.

But that woman is a fool indeed who, while insulted by accusation, can be worked on by compliments.

keep your breath to cool your porridge

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well?informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Shvatila je što je ljubav kad je postala starija - prirodni slijed neprirodnog po?etka.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

A todos nos gusta dar lecciones, pero sólo enseñamos lo que no merece la pena saber.

It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.

Los que no cambian nunca de opinión deben cerciorarse bien antes de juzgar.

La personne, homme ou femme, qui n'éprouve pas de plaisir à la lecture d'un bon roman ne peut qu'être d'une bêtise intolérable.

for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man)