Quotes About Wisdom

cuanto más sencillas son las cosas, menos errores se cometen.

Any fool can get into a fight, but a wise man knows how to stay out of them.

My father taught us to learn as much as possible of any tongue we came across. He says it's better than money in the bank.

The worst negotiator in the world is a man who believes he's clever.

Perhaps the savages will always be in control, Phillip said gloomily. Perhaps greed will always outweigh wisdom in the councils of the mighty; perhaps fear will always overcome compassion in the mind of a man with a sword in his hand.

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. Georgetown

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world – all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

Growing up is learning to deceive.

era notorio que los sacerdotes sabían menos que nadie acerca del amor.

His mind was like a house he had spent his life furnishing.

Over the next three or four years you'll do things you'll remember later with deep embarrassment. But when you're old you'll wish you'd done all of them twice.

Un hombre siempre se perfecciona al lograr comprender algo

A mistake is a mistake. Another mistake is normal. Only the same mistake twice makes you a fool.

He had been angry for years about the disgraceful way the priory was run, and now he had a chance to set all those things right himself. Suddenly he was not sure he could. It was not just a question of seeing what ought to be done and ordering that it should be so. People had to be persuaded, property had to be managed, money had to be found. It was a job for a wise head. The responsibility would be heavy.

The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent –

Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».

quick to comfort and advise, slow to command or punish.

Don't ask!" said Bevin. "If you ask questions, you'll get answers you don't want.

Confía en Alá, pero ata tu camello.»

Over the next three or four years you'll do things you'll remember later with deep embarrassment. But when you're old you'll wish you'd done all of them twice.----Ken Follett

into the Moscow earth, perhaps fifty years from now? 'Call no man happy until he is dead,' said the playwright Aeschylus: Dimka had heard that quote at university and always remembered it. Youthful promise could be blighted by later tragedy; suffering was often rewarded by wisdom.

das selbst sagen?«

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. 'All men make mistakes,' said the ancient Greek Sophocles. 'But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.

He would miss Pa, who all his life had told him things he would never forget, such as: "No matter how well you scarf two planks together, the joint is always the weakest part.