Quotes About Wisdom

Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.

Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing. -Old Yao

When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on his palate.

After all, only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. Seriousness, after all, is only a sign of effort, and effort is a sign of imperfect mastery

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.

Confucius said, "When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession," which simply means that a boy loves fighting, a young man loves women, and an old man loves money.

Il n'y a pas de livres en ce monde que chacun devrait lire, il n'y a que des livres qu'une personne devrait lire à un certain moment, dans un certain endroit, dans des circonstances données et à une certaine époque de sa vie. Je crois que la lecture, comme le mariage, est déterminée par le destin.

Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom   So

Reality—Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams—Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

A sabedoria da vida consiste em eliminar o que não é essencial.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: And this, too, shall pass away.

Anger's not a good emotion.