Quotes About Wisdom

So compose yourself; do not exaggerate your misfortune. A priest whose hair has grown white in the exercise of his functions is not a boy; you will be understood by him to whom every passion has been confided for nearly fifty years now, and who weighs in his hands the ponderous heart of kings and princes. If he is stern under his stole, in the presence of your flowers he will be as tender as they are, and as indulgent as his Divine Master.

All is not gold that glitters,'" he began, his eyes flaming. "That's not it," said Mistigris. "'All is not old that titters.' You'll never get on in diplomacy if you don't know your proverbs better than that.

Mes enfants, you mustn't go at things head-on, you are too weak; take it from me and take it from an angle... Play dead, play the sleeping dog.

The head has its designated place in all creations. If by chance a nation allows its head to fall at its feet, sooner or later it is sure to discover that it has committed suicide.

a word from an old man in the ears of the young ones is the same as the words of youth in the ears of an elder: a rattle which sense dodges understanding!

Everything we take the trouble to learn in our youth, even the most futile, is of use.

What do we know of the world, of business, or men, or life? Our fathers should think for us!

L'un des malheurs auxquels sont soumises les grandes intelligences, c'est de comprendre forcément toutes choses, les vices aussi bien que les vertus.

Money has never yet lost the smallest opportunity of proving its own stupidity.

Timpul este singurul capital al oamenilor care n-au alt? avere decât inteligen?a.

Asl?nda cahil, ama do?u?tan zeki olan, dü?üncelerini sistemli bir bütünlük içinde geli?tirmeye al??k?n ki?iler, kendilerinden daha üstün olanlar?n kaç?rd??? yükseklikleri ula?t?.

I used to want to know everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly — I knew that I was not wanted here on earth.

For my own part, I know of nothing more dreadful to see than an old man's thoughts on a child's forehead; even blasphemy from girlish lips is less monstrous.

finding that art is long and life is short — ars longa et vita brevis — did not commit the mistake of wasting their time and lessening their powers of creation by silly and insipid intrigues.

Come day, go day, as the old folks say,

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Songs were medicines long before herbs

There is nothing so dumb as a tree in full leaf.

there was that foolish feeling of his that reality was not solid, and that facts were only plastic toys; or, rather, that they were poisonous plants, which you need not pluck unless you choose. And, even if you do pluck them, you can always fling them from you and leave them to wither on the ground.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.