Quotes About Wisdom

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

LORD GORING: (after a long pause) Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.

The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.

If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Everyone is brilliant at breakfast.

the secrets of art are best learned in secret, and that Beauty, like Wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

I am not sorry for anything that has happened. It has taught me to know myself better.

Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then

Hoy en día la gente conoce el precio de todo y el valor de nada.

truth is rarely pure and never simple.

They are more cunning than practical. When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.

People who shout so loud, my lords, do nothing; the only men I fear are silent men

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. 

Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.

I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

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.

Love is wiser than Philosophy, though he is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty... His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.