Quotes About Wisdom

It's a very funny thought that, if Bears were Bees, They'd build their nests at the bottom of trees. And that being so (if the Bees were Bears), We shouldn't have to climb up all these stairs.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose.

Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never; I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

When I Was One-And-Twenty When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, "The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue." And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London , 3 October 1892)

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Here dead we lie Because we did not choose To live and shame the land From which we sprung. Life, to be sure, Is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, And we were young.

You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?

Exponía una cantidad extraordinaria de conocimientos pésimamente asimilados.

Kimseden daha iyi olmad???n?z? anlayacak kadar mutevaz?, herkesten farkl? oldu?unuzu kavrayacak kadar bilge olun.

Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.

To know all is an impossible dream; but woe unto him who dares not to learn all, and who does not know that, in order to know anything, one must learn eternally!

Showing the light to birds of the night is like hiding it from them, because it blinds them and becomes for them more obscure than darkness.

Si Edipo en lugar de hacer morir a la esfinge la hubiera domado y enganchado a su carro para entrar a Tebas, hubiera sido rey sin incesto, sin calamidades y sin exilio.

Ta không có chút quy?n l?c nào v?i s? gi?n d? m?t khi ta ch?a bi?t lí do ?ích th?c c?a nó.

Penser, c'est aller d'erreur en erreur.

Don't be sentimental. Everything dies

the moral is perhaps that intellect and being well-read have no innate value to a contented or useful life. The number of hardbacks on your bedside table is in inverse proportion to the number of arched backs in your bed.