Quotes About Wisdom

Molly is suddenly struck by the fact that Vivian wrote these words on this sheet of paper more than eighty years ago. Upright and do right make all right.

Regret?" Vivian raises her shoulders in a shrug. "I'm not sure what good it is to regret.

Aprendí hace mucho que la pérdida no solo es probable, sino inevitable.

Life is too short to dance with ugly men

A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them

Freedom and simplicity are close companions; simplicity teaches us the ways to release the layers of complexity and confusion that blind us.

There is an old Chinese saying, "Write your sorrows in sand and etch your joys in stone.

Oh roses for the flush of youth,And laurel for the perfect prime;But pluck an ivy branch for meGrown old before my time.

The path to wisdom is to dress up and stay home.

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us—" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

For all education is outside, not inside, the schoolroom.

Blindur er boklaus madur - Blind is the bookless man.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

So you see, it doesn't terribly matter if you miss one item of knowledge in a series of similar items because providing you understand the series you already know without knowing that you know.

I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

De leerling, die de meester vragen stelt om wijzer te worden, moet niet worden bestraft, als hij alles wil onderzoeken.

Moreover, in order to show forth her wisdom and the excellence of her mind to the centuries to come, she [Nicostrata/Carmentis] worked and studied so hard that she invented her own letters, which were completely different from those of other nations, that is, she established the Latin alphabet and syntax, spelling, the difference between the vowels and consonants, as well as a complete introduction to the science of grammar.

Don't cater to stupidity.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

Kur njerëzit humbasin spontanitetin, atëherë kanë filluar të plaken.

Ne kemi nevojë për dy burra: një të heshtur për dashuri dhe një të zgjuar, që ta dëgjojmë gjithë ditën. Ose asnjë, sepse ndjenjat që investohen qëndrojnë në një raport të papranueshëm me rezultatin.

Nëse unë do të dëshiroja një mashkull, atëherë ai duhej të ishte i bukur si Antonio, i mencur si Brehti dhe erotik si Koheni. Besnik si një qen dhe diskret si një mace. I pasur si Hermani. Kjo ishte e pamundur dhe unë isha e pashpresë.