Quotes About Wisdom

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Life doesn't teach us through ease & happiness, it teaches us through challenges & pain."

No hay nada más confuso que un engreído autodidacta con poder que no sabe lo que no sabe

Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

Good sense avoids all extremes, and requires us to be soberly rational. This unbending and virtuous stiffness of ancient times shocks too much the ordinary customs of our own; it requires too great perfection from us mortals; we must yield to the times without being too stubborn; it is the height of folly to busy ourselves in correcting the world.

Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear foolish.

Loin d'être aux lois d'un homme en esclave asservie, Mariez-vous, ma soeur, à la philosophie.

MADAME PERNELLE. My dear, appearances are oft deceiving, And seeing shouldn't always be believing.

Trissottani: ma lo scemo ignorante è uno scemo più puro. Clitandro: lo scemo intellettuale è uno scemo due volte.

Par ma foi ! il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien, et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela. »

Appearances can deceive the keenest mind. Remember my example, and be wise: When things look simple, don't believe your eyes.

That virtue here below is hated ever; The envious may die, but envy never.

Alle Menschen sind mir in solchem Maße verhasst, dass es mich ärgern würde, wenn ich in ihren Augen weise wäre

CLEANTE. Spoke like a true young man. Now just calm down, And moderate your towering tantrums, will you? We live in such an age, with such a king, That violence can not advance our cause.

C'est une chose admirable, que tous les grands hommes ont toujours du caprice, quelque petit grain de folie mêlé à leur science.

But how a man like you, who looks so wise And wears a moustache of such splendid size, Can be so foolish as to...

Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.

You are the sole expounder of the doctrine; Wisdom shall die with you, no doubt, good brother, You are the only wise, the sole enlightened

Hem dünyada kim var, hayat?nda bir kez olsun akl?n? kaybetmeyen?

Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent, dans la vie, Des moyens d'exercer notre philosophie

Kogu inimkond on nii vastik rämps ja park, et mind solvata võiks, kui näiksin neile tark.

Le temps qui fuit nous y convie Profitons de la vie Autant que nous pouvons.