Quotes About Wisdom

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

Endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Chavela le respondió: «A veces, pero siempre acabo donde debo». Me tatuaría esa frase en su honor. ¡Cuántas veces la he visto terminar donde debía!

Perhaps his greatest lesson is that philosophical rigor does not have to be pedantic.

mira bien lo que te advierto: que seas humilde y blando, porque quizá estás soñando, aunque ves que estás despierto.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

y en este mundo, en conclusión, todos sueñan lo que son, aunque ninguno lo entiende.

pues así llegué a saber que toda la dicha humana, en fin, pasa como sueño, y quiero hoy aprovecharla

que el vivir sólo es soñar; y la experiencia me enseña que el hombre que vive, sueña

King Basilius, who doth bow 'Neath the weight of years, the doom Age imposes, more inclined To the studies of the mind Than to women, wifeless, lone, Without sons, to fill his throne

All this woe, from beasts I've learned Polity, the same discerned Heeding what the birds had taught,

a quien le daña el saber homicida es de sí mismo!

Podrá entender que soñó, y hará bien cuando lo entienda; por que en el mundo Clotaldo, todos los que viven sueñan.

What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream.

Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida? Una ficción, una sombra, una ilusión, y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son.