Quotes About Wisdom

No one understood the simple truth: Klas had realized that what is most beautiful must be also most fragile. Now this is scary and hard to bear when you are little and don't know anything about the nature of glass. For it is very upsetting that the most beautiful things in life shatter so easily.

Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica. To be intelligent, one must start young.

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

a man's character should be weighed along with his counsel.

Knowing a man for a fool, why should I trouble myself with his maggots?

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not.

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

The Greek philosopher Socrates once said, "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Very few stories convey the profound truth of his statement better than this story of Chinese Taoist origin:

A life without some regret is probably a life that wasn't lived to its fullest.

Don't wish your life away. Time passes quickly enough." Another of her favorite expressions was "The older you get, the faster time flies." The truth of the latter has been made clearer to me with each passing year.

Hindsight's a bitch, isn't it?

books always trumped everything else.

Libro, libro. Cuando te pasen estas cosas, coge siempre un libro.

Nem vágytam én arra, hogy tájékoztass a valóságról.

A lot of wisdom should go into choosing who to love you, and more to choose who to rule you…

Carefully weighted wisdom costs less.

Holding a majority in the decisions that impact people's lives, life, should mean that you hold a majority in wisdom, reason, soul.

No one holds so much knowledge that he can find nothing more interesting to know.

The big truth, maybe the only truth, is that we don't know anything for sure.

The intelligence (and humanity) of a person are apparent in the strategies he employs to get what he wants. Wisdom, in winning only that whose keeping would not cause too much headache.

The rich is not fit to rule, unless he is also rich in soul, in wisdom.