Quotes About Wisdom

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

He had not got beyond the theory as yet — the practice of life was all to come.

For novelists have the privilege of knowing everything.

The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise; and to set up the selfish, or foolish, or the wicked.

Tush, man! praise the day when the sun has set.

As lovely as Aphrodite - as wise as Athena - with the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules - she is known only as Wonder Woman.

Be careful in the world of men, Diana. They do not deserve you. -Queen Hippolyta (Wonder Woman)

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

Keep things simple.

et tamen nihil est sciens vel quiescens, nisi actualiter sit sciens vel quiescens.

Omnis homo praeter Sortem currit, igitur Plato currit et sic de aliis a Sorte.

Algo en mi sangre me dice que lo que destruimos era más bello que lo que buscábamos.

Tengo por costumbre no insultar. Respetar a los adversarios engrandece las propias opiniones. En cambio el que disminuye al adversario, disminuye la importancia de su propia opinión ¿Qué gracia tendría tener la razón contra unos necios? lo grande es tener la razón contra gente seria, brillante, pero equivocada.

If God does exist then it seems to me that rather than solve our problems for us, he or she instead provides us with the potential for great intelligence, understanding, wisdom, and compassion. It is then left up to us to use these to solve our own problems.

A judge's disposition should be about evenly balanced between sail and anchor. He cannot be anchored to the past mechanically, but he ought not be moved by every puff of novel doctrine.

He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out of the core of a man's pride, waiting to descend upon his mind and body.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

Think before you speak, think twice before you shout, think three times before you go mad.

I thought a fellow would never cry when he got to be grown up, but it seems as if that's when a fellow starts, because that's when a fellow starts finding out about things.

I thought a fellow would never cry when he got to be a grown up, but it seems as if that's when a fellow starts, because that's when a fellow starts finding out things.