Quotes About Wisdom

Lucy does not want sense, and that is the foundation on which every thing good may be built.

Accade talvolta che una donna sia più bella a ventinove anni di quanto non sia stata dieci anni prima.

Well, we must live and learn.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance. A misplaced shame. 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. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her, she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very sincerely wish him happy.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling) of something else.

in some cases)... a good memory is unpardonable

but angry people are not always wise;

Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen.

Troppo spesso succede che si distrugge la felicità preparandola, preparandola scioccamente!

What do you think of books? said he, smiling.

If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her November of life, she will cherish all her present powers of mind.

if you are ever so forward and clever yourselves, you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn.

pero Ana, que poseía una finura de espíritu y una dulzura de carácter que la habrían colocado en el mejor lugar entre gentes de verdadero seso

Cuán a menudo destruimos la felicidad preparándola, preparándola estúpidamente

Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.

Sono poche le persone che amo veramente e ancora meno quelle di cui penso bene. Più conosco il mondo, più ne sono scontenta; ogni giorno conferma la mia opinione sull'incoerenza degli essere umani e sull'impossibilità di fare affidamento su ciò che sembra meritevole o sensato. ...

What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you I was properly humbled.

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half, or always suspecting the other of being worse than it was.

ese algo propicio que sirve de consuelo a todos los que cierran los ojos cuando miran, o el entendimiento cuando razonan.

La sagesse est préférable à l'esprit, et sur le long terme, c'est elle qui aura le dernier mot.

The good sense of Colonel