Quotes About Wisdom

When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past -- and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.

Believe me, all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.

Les animaux se repaissent; l'homme mange; l'homme d'esprit seul sait manger.

Structures of lines, surfaces, forms, colours. They try to approach the eternal, the inexpressible above men. They are a denial of human egotism. They are the hatred of human immodesty, the hatred of images, of paintings... Wisdom (is) the feeling for the coming reality, the mystical, the definite indefinite, the greatest definite.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

For if He assigns to His creatures the end that He wills, and chooses the means which seem good to Him to lead them to it, the end He assigns them must be good and wise, nor can He direct them towards their end other than by good and wise means.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

The problem with becoming a public intellectual is that over time you grow more and more public but less and less intellectual.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

I don't know a lot about

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness.

Ask nature questions, and you will get answers.

Charlie Wind once told me we must keep the animals on Earth, for they know everything: how to keep warm, predict the storms, live in darkness or blazing sun, how to navigate the skies, to organize societies, how to make chemicals and fireproof skins. The animals know the Earth as we do not.

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.

Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.