Quotes About Wisdom

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

One is inclined to add only one emollient sentence: that whoever you are and whatever you have done, you will be reversed if you reach old age, for then you will look like a hard old walnut or like some beatified infant of boundless cynicism – the London ideas of innocence. You will look so sweet that you will be able to get away with anything.

words his answer made. "High, high thy thought

prince of those Whose lore in words of wisdom flows. Whose constant care and chief delight

Canto XXI. Visvámitra's Speech.

Association with the wise, abandonment of latent impressions, self-enquiry, control of breathing — these are the means of conquering the mind.

We left you there, lonely, Beauty your power, Wisdom your watchman, To hold the clay tower. from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree

[A]utumn... is mature, reasonable and serious, it glows moderately and not frivolously....

And our conscience is getting old, its an old woman, and no one looks at it anymore.

She had to live a long and wretched life to admit to herself at its end that she hadn't understood anything about it.

If you're being swept away, off somewhere, then why count the pebbles on the shore; they're on the shore, after all.

A person gets old not when he reaches old age, but, when he stops being a child.

When Father was dying, he said: 'Darya don't take on too much --you'll wear yourself out, you take on only the most important thing: to have a conscience and not to be bothered by it.

you only know that which is verified by the agreement of all forms of experience in its totality—experience of the senses, moral experience, psychic experience, the collective experience of other seekers for the truth, and finally the experience of those whose knowing merits the title of wisdom and whose striving has been crowned by the title of saint.

Zora and her playmate Carrie Roberts also "spent long afternoons reading what Moses told the Hebrews not to do in Leviticus," Zora remembered. "In that way I found out a number of things the old folks would not have told me. Not knowing what we were actually reading, we got a lot of praise from our elders for our devotion to the Bible.

Mary Poppins's greatest precept: Never Explain.

I would rather live with unanswered questions than unquestioned answers,

Think ere you speak

La paz significa en la mayoría de los casos una vida serena, la disponibilidad de lo necesario, la dignidad de no tener que implorar piedad. La paz puede significar también libertad, si es administrada sabiamente.

la imagen de Atenea, una efigie pequeña, de no más de tres codos, que la representaba de pie, lanza en ristre y tocada con el yelmo.

Ser jóvenes», se dijo, «no es un mérito ni una virtud. Es simplemente una condición de la existencia».

El hombre no está hecho solo de músculos y tendones, la mente es su parte más elevada y noble, la que lo vuelve semejante a los dioses.

No podemos contar con la ayuda de los dioses. Ellos no ayudan a los necios.