Quotes About Wisdom

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I know life, I have no more to say.

I talk so trivially about life because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of ant use to oneself.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having. I don't feel that, Lord Henry. No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.

I give the truths of tomorrow. I prefer the mistakes of today, she answered.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Are there not books that make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?

The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.' 'Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry?' asked the duchess after a pause. 'Especially when one has been wounded by it,' answered Lord Henry.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

Genie währt länger als Schönheit.

The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

People die of common sense

Io dispenso sempre buoni consigli... non saprei cosa farmene altrimenti.

It is only intellectually lost who ever argue.