Quotes About Wisdom

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women

Le dramatique de la viellesse ce n'est pas qu'on se fait vieux, c'est qu'on reste jeune.

Znios? brutaln? si??, ale brutalny rozs?dek jest absolutnie nie do zniesienia. Pos?ugiwanie si? nim jest nie fair. To cios poni?ej intelektu

DziÅ› wiÄ™kszo?? ludzi umiera na postÄ™pujÄ…cy zdrowy rozsÄ…dek, a kiedy jest ju? zbyt pó?no na leczenie, odkrywajÄ…, ?e jedynÄ… rzeczÄ…, której siÄ™ nigdy nie ?aÅ'uje, sÄ… wÅ'asne bÅ'Ä™dy.

El vicio supremo es la superficialidad.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Thou art the same: 'tis I whose wretched soul Takes discontent to be its paramour, And gives its kingdom to the rude control Of what should be its servitor,—for sure Wisdom is somewhere, though the stormy sea Contain it not, and the huge deep answer ''Tis not in me.' To

have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.

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. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.

Why can't you be like the Happy Prince?" asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. "The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.

Wisdom should be freely available to all men without smart-alecky impediments

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Grandfather, I know now what it is that washes the water. It is the spirit. The water is clear and pure, but the spirit is purer still.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (To live well is to live concealed.)

Someday this pain will be useful to you

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

You will go most safely by the middle way.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

ego pulveris hausti ostendens cumulum, quot haberet corpora pulvis, tot mihi natales contingere vana rogavi; excidit, ut peterem iuvenes quoque protinus annos.

fear feeds fear when knowledge fails

Wait for the final day. Call no man happy until he is dead and his body is laid to rest in the grave.