Quotes About Wisdom

It seemed clear that wars were not made by genereations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That's one thing I've learned.

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.

Mi madre siempre me decía que la felicidad es clave para la vida. Cuando fui a la escuela, me preguntaron qué quería ser cuando fuera grande. Dije feliz. Me dijeron que no entendía la pregunta... Y yo les respondí que ellos no entendían la vida

semakin banyak yang kau lihat, semakin sedikit yang kau tahu.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Common sense is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.

And he distrusts novices who, without theory, will lack judgment, which must work "like a ship's compass," recording "the slightest variations" from courses set, "however rough the sea.

Complexity fully rendered would take too long and contain too much, thereby entangling judgment. Complexity as what you want or expect would only confirm what you think you know. You need something in between.

It's no stretch to say, then, that Thucydides coaches all who read him. For as his greatest modern interpreter (himself a sometime coach) has gently reminded us, the Greeks, despite their antiquity, "may have believed things we have either forgotten or never known; and we must keep open the possibility that in some respects, at least, they were wiser than we.

There were, of course, precedents for questioning the wisdom of war: Artabanus, Archidamus, and Nicias had all done that, if unsuccessfully, and Thucydides' doomed Melians had raised timeless misgivings about the conduct of wars once started. No one before Augustine, however, had set standards to be met by states in choosing war.

El poder, no obstante, abre la puerta a cometer grandes idioteces.[36]

existiera y nuestro terapeuta fue Tucídides.

y Tolstói están, por tanto, más cerca de lo que parece y nosotros tenemos la suerte de asistir a sus seminarios siempre que queramos.

ejército recuerda a la del agua», explica Sun Tzu. Si atacas donde tu enemigo menos lo espera, es decir, «si evitas su fuerza y atacas su punto débil, entonces, como le ocurre al agua, nada se te opondrá».

la simplicidad coexiste con la complejidad y puede guiarnos con éxito con ella.

Sun Tzu deja suficientes vías libres para contentar al zorro y mantiene, a la vez, el propósito y la determinación del erizo.

abrirnos a la posibilidad de que, al menos en algunos aspectos, fueron más sabios que nosotros».[55]

Xerxes tinha razão. Se tentarmos prever tudo, arriscamo-nos a não fazer nada. Mas também a tinha Artabano. Se não nos prepararmos para tudo o que pode acontecer, garantimos que alguma parte disso acontecerá.

That aspect of reality of most central concern and importance to human beings is, of course, human beings. And in order to survive and succeed in his fullest capacity as a human being, man must be able to identify his own nature (including his means of knowledge) as well as the nature of the world (or universe) in which he acts.

There is no limit to a woman's intelligence provided she is not required to be coherent. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES