Quotes About Wisdom

Bugünlerde herkes her ÅŸeyin fiyat?n? biliyor, fakat hiçbir ÅŸeyin deÄŸerini bilmiyorlar.

Was verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.

La ventaja de jugar con fuego, lady Caroline, es que no nos quemamos. Sólo se quema la gente que no sabe jugar con él.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

He gives me good advice...People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

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.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.

He had that rarest of all things, common sense.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

a beleza, a verdadeira beleza, acaba onde a expressão intelectual começa. O intelecto é já uma forma de exagero e destrói a harmonia de qualquer rosto.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young.

Every experience is of value.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people.

I always pass on good advice.  It is the only thing to do with it.  It is never of any use to oneself. mabel

He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

I'm so clever, I don't understand half of the things I'm saying.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

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

Existen venenos tan sutiles que para conocer sus propiedades hay que probarlos. Existen enfermedades tan extrañas que uno tiene que sufrirlas para comprender su esencia

La experiencia no tiene ningún valor ético. Es simplemente el nombre que los hombres dan a sus errores

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.