Quotes About Wisdom

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And here we live and know nothing,

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,

He was only nine years old, he was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was dear to him, he protected it as the eyelid protects the eye, and did not let anyone into his soul without the key of love.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women." ? Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

What I take from my nights, I add to my days.

For hate dies, suffocated to death by its own stupidity and mediocrity. But grandeur is eternal.

No hay más remedio que alimentar el espíritu, para no dejarse caer en el embrutecimiento, en la suciedad, en la mediocridad

If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

He smiled happily, as his lover's wit, like his lover's eye, divined meanings unsupported by the evidence.

It was the wiser course, she thought, to deny the evidence of her senses, than her good sense.

He was an old, old man, venerable as a mountain, and with much snow on top.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

A wall of books is a wall of windows.

My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

I raise my glass to the Awful Truth, Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth, Except to say it isn't worth a dime, And the whole damn place goes crazy twice, And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ

Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others