Quotes About Wisdom

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

Die Mathematik ist es, die uns vor dem Trug der Sinne schützt und uns den Unterschied zwischen Schein und Wahrheit kennen lehrt.

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

Only the dead know the truth.

He felt that in the eyes of the Infinite wisdom and folly are the same, for the Infinite knows them not.

You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.

Es nützt nichts, das Buch in der Mitte wegzuwerfen, nur weil man etwas nicht versteht!

How can anybody be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense?

Darling stop being philosophical, it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

If young people tell me I'm young at heart, I take offence -- I'm OLD at heart. Si la gente joven me dice que soy joven de corazón, me ofendo: soy VIEJA de corazón.

hundred and ten is not such a great age, from a biblical point of view at least.

Qué haré? —dije—. Es una pena suicidarse después de haber vivido noventa y nueve años sin entender nada.

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason

Darling stop being philosophical it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.

Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Me gustan los viejos: no es una diarrea sentimental, como diría ese barbarote de Samuel Tesler. Los viejos me gustan como las flores marchitas, los frutos pasados, los otoños y los anocheceres, las cosas en trance final y en víspera de metamorfosis

One day it will become exceedingly clear what the best course of action is for you. This truth will be so unmistakable that a sense of peace will pervade you. The voices in your head that have been driving you mad will give way to a deep and profound knowing. But just like expecting beautiful flowers to grow in a garden filled with pernicious weeds, it's important to clear the way for our wisdom to emerge.

Age is a function of mind over matter if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.