Quotes About Wisdom

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Trust one who has tried.

This life the old Sabines knew long ago; Remus knew it, and his brother.

Happy old man!

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

Trust one who has gone through it.

The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.

Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." -Irene Pepperburg

Clearly, animals know more than we think and think a great deal more than we know.

To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

And that unconscious ease that comes of being so young — still oblivious to the blows that will destroy parts of her. Past the age of forty, everyone is like a bombed-out city.

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.

Socrates […] is recorded as having said, sagely and with the greatest acuteness, that men's breasts should have windows in them and be open so that their thoughts would not remain concealed but open for inspection.

All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily on to the very end of life.

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

La presunción, tan ingenua, de la ciencia del siglo xviii de poder disolver cualquier sospecha de misterio en el mundo ha dado paso, si no a la humildad, por lo menos a una mayor prudencia.

estrategia del Deus absconditus: proponer, no imponer; iluminar, no cegar; dejar ver, sí, pero con sombras y enigmas...

Light is knowledge , Knowledge is love , Love is freedom.