Quotes About Wisdom

Dünya halini sevmeyiniz, ne de dünyada var olan?, k?z?m. Tanr? a?k?, dünya sevgisiyle dolu olan ki?ide yoktur!

Çünkü ak?l maddeyi güzelle?tirir bilgi akl? parlat?r.

El zekan?n bir aletidir yaln?zca. Zeka olmazsa hiçbir ?ey yap?lm?? olmaz.

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore ...

Ne smiješ željama profu?kati svoj život, Heather.

And suddenly it hits me. Our roles have completely reversed.It's no longer me giving my younger self advice; it's her giving me advice. And I'm fast realising that actually I don't know better at all. About some things, yes - I glance at that terrible silver eyeshadow - but not about everything, far from it.

But that's one of the good things about getting older: often the most terrible of things turn into the most amusing through the lens of time.

Don't worry about getting older, worry about becoming dull.

If I can give you one bit of advice, it's never to make your own fries. Buy frozen. Life is too short to be peeling potatoes.

My theory is that's why our eyesight goes as we get older: to protect us from seeing ourselves in sharp focus.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. GOETHE

Our lives are made up of time, and the quality of our existence depends on our wise use of the moments we are given.

There is only one true heroism, and that is to know the world as it is and to love it. The great people of history, certainly the spiritually great, give evidence of this ability. HUGH DOWNS W

The supreme good—to examine everything—a life which was not devoted to such research would not be worth living. Happiness would thus consist in their never-ending quest. PLATO

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. GOETHE

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.

Din pasiunea gratuita a cunoasterii, din obsesia adevarului, cei pe care ii pretuim ca oameni inteligenti se descurca de obicei mai prost in viata decat prostii si ajung uneori sa-si neglijeze interesele si chiar sa lucreze impotriva lor, pastrand, totusi, cum spuneam la inceput, loc destul pentru prostia propriu-zisa. Deci inteligenta nu e in fond decat o prostie heteronoma.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn't, say things you wish you could retract or phrase more felicitously, and, in short, fumble your way along. Those "mature" people whose lives are even without a single sour note or a single mistake, who never fumble, manage only at the cost of original thought and original action. They do without the successes as well as the failures.

Also a fan of being inscrutable, Franco once said, 'You are a the slave of what you say and the master of what you don't say.' He might have added that that approach isn't always guaranteed to work. If you attempt, for example, to be sphinx-like, mysterious and enigmatic when you get to the front of a long queue at the chip shop, you do risk being punched quite hard in the back of the head.