Quotes About Wisdom

Las ideas más brillantes son siempre las más sencillas.

En büyük düÅŸünceler, en basit olanlar?d?r.

I want the truth of things. But there's nowhere to find it.

The two boys faced each other. There was a brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common sense.

The folly isn't mine. It's God's folly. Even in the old days he never asked men to do what was reasonable.

Allí, tumbado en la oscuridad, comprendió que era un desterrado. - Y solo por tener un poco de sentido común.

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. And then the occasion slipped by so that you had to grab at a decision. This made you think; because thought was a valuable thing, that got results...

Allí estaba el mundo deslumbrante de la caza, la táctica, la destreza y la alegría salvaje; y allí estaba también el mundo de las añoranzas y el sentido común desconcertado.

You think this is a trap then? the Count asked. I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise, the Prince answered. Which is why I'm still alive.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

So you think this is a trap then? the Count said. I think everything is a trap. which is why I am still alive. said the prince

The main thing was to know the world, every twenty-five years or so, back for a couple hundred years, and if you had that info handy, always there under your belt, then you could figure out the gaps.

She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.

She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She

In point of fact, she had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She

Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something.

los intelectuales no pueden ser insufribles, sino hasta después de que hayan cumplido los veinticinco años; eso está en nuestros estatutos.»

I'm not stupid, you know. Quit bragging.

La vita è dolore» disse sua madre. «Chiunque affermi il contrario cerca certamente di venderti qualcosa».

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. [ The Sick Chamber ( The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.