Quotes About Wisdom

The text we fall in love with is the one in which we never cease to learn what we already knew.

There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.

The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

Iat? de ce, înainte de toate, sunt îndemnat s? cred c? hot?rârea cea mai bun? pe care aÈ™ putea-o lua, ca È™i cea mai înÈ›eleapt?, este aceea de-a pleca È™i de-a r?mâne la distanÈ›a cuvenit?, s? fiu ca È™i cum n-aÈ™ fi.

To me, that book has been both a revelation and a gospel.

Cerchiamo di non dimenticare, carissimo, che le piccole emozioni sono le grandi guide della nostra vita e che ad esse obbediamo senza saperlo.

I believe that if we knew everything we should attain some serenity. Now, having as much of that serenity as possible, even when one knows little or nothing for certain, is perhaps a better remedy for all ills than what is sold in the pharmacy. Much of it comes by itself, one grows and develops of one's own accord.

Your life would be empty indeed if you didn't regret anything.

Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting. Just read the Bible and the Gospel, that will start you thinking, thinking about many things, thinking about everything, well then, think about many things, think about everything, that will lift your thoughts above the humdrum despite yourself. We know how to read, so let us read!

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?

Woman is as elemental as the sea, and at times equally terrible in her power.' he murmured. 'Man resorts to brute force in order to subdue her subtle cruelty, for he is constantly aware of the forces which can overcome his strength and drown his will to a mere incoherent murmur in the silken hollow of a fragile white shoulder. Be wise in your power, pequena. It can bring you happiness or despair.

Passage of time lends perspective to one's observations; perspective then leads to wisdom.

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don't differ from science.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Happy the man who could search out the causes of things.

Trust not too much to appearances.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.