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Quotes About Wisdom

La oscuridad de un texto no es defecto cuando lo que dice sólo puede decirse oscuramente.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
L'homme ne possède pas son intelligence, son intelligence est en visite chez lui.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
A confused idea attracts a fool like a flame attracts an insect.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
To educate the soul consists in teaching it to transform its envy into admiration.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Das Universum ist nicht System, das heißt: logischer Zusammenhang. Sondern heirarchische Struktur von Paradoxen.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
EL mayor triunfo de la ciencia parece estar en la velocidad creciente con que el bobo puede trasladar su bobería de un sitio a otro sitio.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Nicht nach Freiheit strebt der Verstand, sondern nach Unterwerfung. Die Wahrheit ist der Glanz der Notwendigkeit.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
To philosophize is to guess, without ever being able to know whether we are right.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order. Truths do not contradict each other except when they fall out of order.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Genuine thought only discovers its principles at the end.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
We who want to admit nothing but what has value, will always seem naïve to those who recognize nothing but what is in force.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
la pureza de quien no llegó a ser lo suficientemente impuro para saber qué cosa es la pureza.
~ Nicolas Guillen
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. RUMI
~ Unknown
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. from the SERENITY PRAYER
~ Unknown
The Power of the Universe will come to your assistance, if your heart and mind are in Unity. LAKOTA SAYING, passed down from WHITE BUFFALO CALF WOMAN
~ Unknown
Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)
~ Nicolas Boileau
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Înainte s? scrii, înva?? s? gânde?ti.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Um idiota sempre encontra um idiota ainda maior para admirá-lo.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
~ Nicolas Boileau
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
~ Unknown
Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly,Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky,From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan,I really think the greatest fool is man.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux