Quotes About Wisdom

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oil in studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

Den som kun ta'r spøg for spøg og alvor kun alvorligt Han og hun har faktisk fattet begge dele dårligt

A via da sabedoria é fácil de indicar: - errar, errar, errar! Fazer erros grandes e pequenos, mas sempre menos, sempre menos.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there's a sentence written especially for us.

A su lado se sacude la espesura de la vejez

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Do not peer too far.

I have many swift arrows in my quiver which speak to the wise, but for the crowd they need interpreters. The skilled poet is one who knows much through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter turbulently, vainly, against the divine bird of Zeus.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

Blessed is the person who has passed the teachings of secrets. That person knows the source of life as well as his goal.

In heaven, learning is seeing; On earth, remembering.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth And what flies up, though it be but a spark, Shall have weight.

De los hombres justos el Tiempo es el mejor salvador.

El que habla, siembra. El que escucha, recoge.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.