Quotes About Wisdom

Te dan sabiduría los libros, porque retratan el alma de las personas, te ayudan a pensar, a reflexionar a ver la vida desde distintos puntos de vista, a darte cuenta de tus fallos, a descubir tus propios sentimientos, a buscar tu camino...

Fools never learn from their mistakes; Smart people learn from their mistakes; Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

It is hard for them to condemn the gerontocratic ideal advocated by Cicero and Cato because that denouncement itself, coming from them, could easily pass, in the guise of preserved or rediscovered youth, as a claim to authority, as a coy claim to wisdom, experience, and power, at the very least the power of influence.

Are time and patience still virtues?

to be old is to be alive, and the signs of age are also the signs of life.

I age, therefore I live. I have aged, therefore I am.

Time is a freedom, age a constraint. The cat, apparently, does not know this constraint.

tell me how you age, and I will tell you what you were.

knowledge isn't truly powerful until it's shared.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Let us guard against stripping our science of its share of poetry.

Para quien no sea un tonto de marca mayor, todas las ciencias son interesantes, pero cada sabio solo encuentra una cuyo cultivo le divierte. Descubrirla para consagrarse a ella es propiamente lo q se llama vocación

La incomprensión del presente nace fatalmente de la ignorancia del pasado

Les méchants faits détruisent les belles théories.

Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.

As we get older the brain actually gets smarter.

Be aware of knowledge that does not end in love.

For as Pascal warns us, "Be aware of knowledge that does not end in love.

The gods are jealous and men are fools.

Les parents ont tout oublié, ce n'est pas de leur faute, ils ont juste vieilli.

Se as pessoas fizessem a viagem de nupcias antes do casamento, garanto-lhe que os tribunais ficavam livres de muitas buracracias inuteis

O fogo é um preciso aliado do homem mas é perigos para uma criança que não o saiba utilizar. Passa-se o mesmo com certos conhecimentos. À escala da humanidade os homens não são mais do que crianças, olhai o nosso mundo e vede como nos falta educação.

Identifier le bonheur lorsqu'il est à ses pieds, avoir le courage et la détermination de se baisser pour le prendre dans ses bras... et le garder. C'est l'intelligence du coeur. L'intelligence sans celle du coeur ce n'est que de la logique et ça n'est pas grand chose.