Quotes About Wisdom

The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

The older I get, the more appreciative I am of where I came from.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

If it doesn't seem nice, appropriate, or right, don't do it.

I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas.

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

We have to learn from our mistakes. But it's part of my game; I won't be arrogant of saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes.

Ce matin j'ignorais ce qu'était l'argent, vous me l'avez appris, ce n'est qu'un moyen, voilà tout.

Once more she urged me not to be dazzled by the glitter of society, to be always on my guard, especially against what most attracted me. This is the sum-total of her wisdom, and I can get nothing more out of her.

Sempre que uma mulher chega a se arrepender de suas fraquezas, passa uma esponja sobre a sua vida, a fim de tudo apagar.

Be not too confiding, nor frivolous, nor over enthusiastic, —three rocks on which youth often strikes. Too confiding a nature loses respect, frivolity brings contempt, and others take advantage of excessive enthusiasm.

Los filósofos han observado que las costumbres de la edad temprana retornan con fuerza en la vejez del hombre. Séchard confirmaba esta ley moral: cuanto más envejecía, más le gustaba beber.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. How well I felt this difference when I read your kind, tender letter! To see you thus living in three hearts roused my envy. Yes, you are happy; you have had wisdom to obey the laws of social life, whilst I stand outside, an alien.

L'étude prête une sorte de magie à tout ce qui nous environne.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

Ach mein Freund, heiraten Sie nicht, haben Sie keine Kinder. Man gibt ihnen das Leben und sie geben einem den Tod.

he adopted a sound view of life, appreciating that its universal law obliges us to put up with the less than perfect in everything.

So verbringt man einen guten Teil seines Lebens damit, auszujäten, was man in der Jugend in seinem Herzen hat wachsen lassen. Diese Operation nennt man: Erfahrungen machen,

Triste condition de l'homme! il n'y a pas un de ses bounheurs qui ne vienne d'une ignorance quelconque." ??? ??? ???? ?? ??????? ??? ??? ?? ???? ???????? ??? ??? ????? ??? ??????? ????? ?? ??? ??

There are fools that love without calculation and wise men that calculate while they love.