Quotes About Wisdom

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frédéric Amiel

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Je vais te montrer un secret.

vu comment il nous traitait, c'était sans doute qu'il avait vécu deux ou trois trucs par le passé qui changent le cœur des hommes.

I am made of all that I have seen.

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

En vérité, celui qui ne connaît pas la colère ne sait rien».

Qui cache son fou, meurt sans voix

Only learn with reservations. An entire life is not enough to unlearn what you naively, submissively, have allowed to be placed in your head---innocent one---without imagiging the consequences.

Study is the child of silence and mystery.

Although no man can know everything, everyone ought nevertheless to work with a view of enriching the common treasury of knowledge, and in the degree to which he is conscious of this collaboration, the result of his effort will endure and be useful.

Le secret du bonheur était de vivre en jugeant le présent avec la même sérénité que s'il s'agissait déjà du passé.

Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Piensa como un hombre de acción, actúa como un hombre de pensamiento" (Henri-Louis Berson)

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.