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Quotes About Wisdom

Mieux vaut allumer une petite lanterne que maudire les ténèbres
~ Jean d'Ormesson
la science d'aujourd'hui détruit l'ignorance d'hier et elle fera figure d'ignorance au regard de la science de demain. Dans le cœur des hommes il y a un élan vers autre chose qu'un savoir qui ne suffira jamais à expliquer un monde dont la clé secrète est ailleurs
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Inima î?i avea ra?iunile ei, ?i ra?iunea le cuno?tea.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Pe bun? dreptate se spunea c? ideile î?i croise drum printre oameni.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Ai fi zis c? se îngr??au din spiritul vremii care trece.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Cultura este ceea ce r?mâne dup? ce ai uitat totul.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Pablo Picasso once remarked, 'One starts to get young at the age of sixty.
~ Jean Dreze
It's a good day when you can get two birds stoned at once.
~ Jean Ferris
T'as parlé le berli du berlu à la corbelle du corbeau ?
~ Jean Giono
É costume dizer-se que o Homem é feito de células e sangue. Mas, na realidade, ele é como as folhas das árvores. É preciso que o vento lhes sopre para se ouvir o seu cantar.
~ Jean Giono
Una sociedad crece cuando los ancianos plantan árboles bajo cuya sombra saben que nunca se sentarán
~ Jean Giono
sous le chêne
~ Jean Giono
Ça, c'était une musique de vent, ah, mais une musique toute bien savante dans les belles choses de la terre et des arbres.
~ Jean Giono
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.
~ Jean Guéhenno
Un livre est un outil de liberté.
~ Jean Guéhenno
She had learned not to expect love, and wasn't even sure she wanted it. This was the most profound wisdom she'd managed to glean from the fifteen years she had spent in her mother's presence.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Kierkegaard said that, and Naomi had always admired the eerie perfection of this simple insight.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
I don't think I was young even when I actually was young, and that wasn't yesterday.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Pray you now forget, and forgive: I am old and foolish
~ Jean Hegland
The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we have to say: The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.'" Then
~ Jean Hegland
Guy walks into the doctor's office," the clownish fool retorts, "says, 'Doc, I've hurt my arm in several places.' 'So,' his doctor says, 'stay outta those places.'" "How
~ Jean Hegland
He who ends with the most understanding wins.
~ Jean Hegland