Quotes About Wisdom

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all

A man will be known by his books.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

They never get ahead an inch, because they are always hugging some coward maxim, which they can only interpret literally.... Of what use is it "to be sawing about a set of maxims to which there is a complete set of antagonist maxims"? Proverbs, it has been well said, should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half-truth.

Schumacher posited that people must make a serious shift in what they consider to be wealth and progress: "Ever-bigger machines, entailing ever-bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever-greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom.

I don't like questions. They invent the answers. The real answers are discovered, before you even know what the question is.

William McIlvanney

Samuel Johnson: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

If we piled them up, they would reach God.' 'But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.' 'Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.' " "Old one." "Jokes only get old if they're good. Otherwise, who keeps telling them?" "People like you who aren't funny?

In certain ways I am deeply stupid. I don't say this out of modesty. I believe that I'm more intelligent than the average human being, though perhaps intelligence should not be looked at as a single gauge, like a speedometer, but as a full array of tachometers, odometers, altimeters, and the rest.

Kata-kata yang ingin kau ucapkan sekarang... Jangan katakan. Dan itu, sobatku, adalah rahasia panjang umur.

Those words you want to say right now? Don't say them." He smiled and cuffed my cheek with something close to real affection. "And that, my friend, is the secret to living a long life.

That was what getting old was all about, she'd begun to realize: a growing heap of memories piling up around you, a Mount Everest of memories. The very opposite of being young, when the ground ahead lay level and bare, a vast open space that stretched on forever and ever, waiting to be explored.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

we merely say that man is continually developing new forms of insight, which are clear up to a point and then tend to become unclear. In this activity, there is evidently no reason to suppose that there is or will be a final form of insight (corresponding to absolute truth)

The universe speaks if you will learn to listen.