Quotes About Wisdom

He was younger than old Yvain, his voice as supple as a withy-wound chariot.

That's…" "An excellent idea. I do have them sometimes. Yes. Now go.

Quiet mouth, bright mind.

Recklessness killed seers as surely as it killed gesiths.

She knows when to let go. You should, too.

Hild remembered her mother's words exactly-the light of the world must remember everything.

Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.

Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.

Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom.

Intelligence consists not in handling intelligent ideas, but in handling any idea intelligently.

Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.

Reading is an unsurpassable drug, because more than just the mediocrity of our lives, it allows us to escape the mediocrity of our souls.

The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality.

Wir sollten uns nur den Dingen widmen, die bei einem Zusammenbruch unversehrt bleiben würden.

Sólo las letras antiguas curan la sarna moderna.

Las verdades no están en la circunferencia de un círculo cuyo centro es el hombre. Las verdades se levantan en parajes fragosos que el hombre recorre siguiendo los meandros de una senda sinuosa que las revela, las oculta, finalmente las ostenta o las esconde.

In history it is wise to hope for miracles and absurd to trust in plans. Intelligent optimism is never faith in progress, but hope in a miracle.

Either we learn from Greek tragedy how to read human history, or we never learn how to read it.

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.

De goede smaak die is aangeleerd is erger dan de slechte smaak die men van nature heeft.

Het gevaarlijke idee is niet het valse, maar het gedeeltelijk juiste.