Quotes About Wisdom

To make history, first you must learn history.

To write well you must both know of the world and the greater message you wish to share with the world beyond that which you write.

Understanding me, this, him isn't possible without first understanding that which created me, this and him and for that, you will need an eternity of knowledge.

We all grow old. Some of us prolong it. Others accelerate it. Nobody can prevent it.

We only talk of what we know, so as to know of little is to talk of little.

We seem to have forgotten the most important of all lessons most prominently propounded over two thousand years ago and so I will be the one to remind all; we know nothing and we shall be fulfilled in this for by this we understand that there is always something to know which provides us with a knowledge-seeking purpose.

We will never stop having things to know.

Your greatest enemies, are those who prevent you from learning all there is to know and more.

Your heart will get you into trouble, but your strong mind will get you out of it.

Your ignorance will blind your vision of the future and your place within it.

Following the 2000 coup, this august house did not agree to forgive the perpetrators but you decided that justice will take its course. You are confronted with a similar decision now. The military humbly requests that you display the same wisdom then to protect our land now.

I know enough to know, that I don't know much

Nevertheless, in love, the present matters. There is always an opportunity to learn and experience something new, to expose ourselves to wisdom by recognizing the humanity in others, to see through their eyes our one world; in this way, with love, we enter an empathetic space, as if it were a portal to a whole new world.

If you hang around with nine fools, then your sure to be the tenth.

It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

Les cygnes chantent avant de mourir. Certaines personnes feraient bien de mourir avant de chanter.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Learning without thought is labor lost.