Quotes About Wisdom

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools

I may not be a smart man but I know what love is

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the right woman- concentrate on becoming the right man.'

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The things that count most cannot be counted.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third

Love is a better teacher than duty.

O innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.