Quotes About Wisdom

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. — Lydia Maria Child

A distância mais curta entre dois pontos pode ser a linha reta, mas é nos caminhos curvos que se encontram as melhores coisas.

Um dia qualquer, no meio de um pensamento, de uma palavra, você descobrirá de repente esta coisa extraordinária: cresci! O que não vai impedir que o caso ou Deus, dê a isto o nome que quiser, de vez em quando a governe como uma casca de noz no meio do mar. Mas reagirá de modo diferente, está compreendendo?

A menor distância entre dois pontos pode ser a linha reta, mas é nos caminhos curvos que se encontram as melhores coisas.

Chego mais perto de minha dona, continua bela apesar dos estragos, seduziu o tempo. Como seduziu as pessoas.

It is far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

All fish are not caught with flies.

Children and fools speak true.

Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.

Maidens, be they never so foolish, yet being fair they are commonly fortunate.

If I could conceive it possible that this universe were governed by a wisdom no greater than I am able to comprehend, I should not be able to believe in a God of infinite wisdom; for finite wisdom cannot comprehend infinite wisdom.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

It is true that wisdom has wealth in the one hand and pleasure in the other, that her ways are ways of pleasantness, her paths are paths of peace; but she will never come to one who follows her for the sake of the wealth in the one hand or the pleasure in the other.

Oh! fools and blind, not to know the Master whose servant nature is.

A wise, right, and true estimate of one's own powers is necessary to their highest and best use. The general who overestimates his forces leads them to defeat; he who underestimates them does not lead them at all.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

His father thought he had a wond'rous wise look when he was born, and so he named him Solomon, thinking that if indeed he turned out to be wise the name would fit him nicely, whereas, should he be mistaken, and the boy grow up stupid, his name could be easily changed to Simon.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

Intuition is the soul within the soul.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.