Quotes About Wisdom

O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case? Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow, That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow? Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.

Jangan meminjam, jangan pula meminjamkan, Karena baik uang yang dipinjamkan mau pun sahabat, kedua-duanya akan hilang. Lagi pula meminjam menumpulkan rasa hemat.

Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.

And every day past is just another step for fools on the way to their deaths.

He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear

better a little chiding than a great deal of heart-break.

Stay, I prithee tell me what thou think'st of me. Viola: That you do think you are not what you are. Olivia: If I think so, I think the same of you. Viola: Then think you right; I am not what I am. Olivia: I would you were as I would have you be. Viola: Would it be better, madam, than I am? I wish it might, for now I am your fool.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, / But not a scepter to control the world.

All that glitters is not gold Often you have heard that told.

My lord, wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail.174

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge.

Milikilah lebih banyak daripada yang anda tunjukkan. Berbicaralah tidak sebanyak yang anda ketahui.

It is a wise father who knows his own child.

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Prov 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction

Ä°yi bir kitap... sonunda seni az?c?k yorgun b?rakmal?. Onu okurken bir sürü hayat ya??yorsun.

Maybe that's the key to happiness—being sort of dumb, not wanting to know any of the answers.

And I think it was a great Frenchman, Voltaire, who said that the beginning of wisdom is the moment when one understands how little concerned with one's own life are other men, they who are so desperately preoccupied with their own. I knew nothing about you and that boy, nothing at all.

Rarely is it advisable to meet prejudices and passions head on. Instead, it is best to appear to conform to them in order to gain time to combat them. One must know how to sail with a contrary wind and to tack until one meets a wind in the right direction. —Fortune de Felice, 1778

Take the eighteenth-century general who had fallen into disfavor with the great Prussian warrior king, Frederick the Great. Coming upon the king, the general saluted him with the greatest respect, but Frederick turned his back. "I am happy to see that Your Majesty is no longer angry with me," murmured the general. "How so?" demanded Frederick. "Because Your Majesty has never in his life turned his back on an enemy," replied the general.

That's why folks sometimes say, 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

There was an old saying about how God helped those who helped themselves. Preacher would have added that God watched over those who weren't damn fools to start with.

the father of lies is the Devil - and that mischief and the Devil are never far apart.