Quotes About Wisdom

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Al retirarse la marea, como suele decir Warren Buffett, se ve quién estaba nadando desnudo y quién no.

Non c'è nessun libro così cattivo che non abbia in sé qualcosa di buono.

He picked something out of everything he read.

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

Truth comes out in wine.

With a grain of salt.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

The master's eye is the best fertilizer.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.

Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.

nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

So when you 3 go hunting you can adopt my advice, and carry your tablets as well as your food-basket and flask, for you will find that Minerva roams the mountains no less than Diana.

Não ignoro que muitos outros não olham estas espécies de desgraças senão como uma simples perda de um bem, e que assim pensando eles se julgam grandes homens e homens sábios. De minha parte, não sei se são tão grandes e tão sábios como o imaginam, mas sei bem que não são homens.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.

He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone, is a man among brutes. But he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy is a God among men.

Next to this, we must consider the soul receiving its beauty from intellect

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech