Quotes About Wisdom

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said?

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Desde hace algún tiempo, mis ojos siempre dan la impresión de saber algo que yo no sé.

Do not speak of what you do not know.

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

the problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.

There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul

The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.

At our age," she said, "you go for the small things and you do them as well as you can.

The secret of a happy life is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

As a boy, he had been moved by those words of the dying Socrates, suggesting that if death were just one long, unbroken, dreamless sleep, then a greater boon could hardly be bestowed upon mankind.

Prostia, dup? cum spune Pyrrhon, nu-i deloc mai prejos decât înÈ›elepciunea, de care nu se deosebeÈ™te prin nimic.

Lumea se întemeiaz? pe înÈ™el?ciune, iar viaÈ›a este o iluzie. ?i sufletu-i o iluzie. Trebuie, totuÈ™i, s? ai atâta minte ca s? È™tii s? deosebeÈ™ti iluziile pl?cute de cele nepl?cute. În hypocaustum, poruncesc s? se ard? lemn de cedru pres?rat cu ambr?, pentru c? în via?? prefer aromele, nu duhoarea.

There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.

DaÅ' ci Bóg nikczemnÄ… posta?, jeÅ›li siÄ™ ludzie nie bÄ™dÄ… ciebie bali, to siÄ™ bÄ™dÄ… z ciebie Å›mieli.

He who knew how to live should know how to die.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.