Quotes About Wisdom

Niets weet een mens over zichzelf. Je denkt dat het went om jezelf te zijn, maar het tegendeel is waar. Met de jaren begrijp je steeds minder wie die iemand is namens wie je spreekt en handelt.

Nous avons chacun une vieille mère, qui n'est pas forcément notre mère de sang, mais que nous vénérons pour des motifs immémoriaux

Istnieje od bardzo dawna ogromna sekta idiotów, którzy przeciwstawiajÄ… zmysÅ'owo?? inteligencji. Powstaje bÅ'Ä™dne koÅ'o: odmawiajÄ… sobie rozkoszy, ?eby poprawi? swoje zdolnoÅ›ci intelektualne, co w efekcie prowadzi do ich zubo?enia. StajÄ… siÄ™ coraz gÅ'upsi, co z kolei utwierdza ich w przekonaniu, ?e sÄ… bÅ'yskotliwi - nic bowiem bardziej ni? gÅ'upota nie daje poczucia, ?e jest siÄ™ inteligentnym.

L'époque où nous vivons regorge de ces idiots intelligents dont la société fait regretter les braves imbéciles du temps jadis.

Il n'y a pas d'art plus grand que celui de vivre

Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible restraint over common decency.

Our people have said that for any marriage to work, one party has to be a fool

Age is a number, and mine is unlisted

Know the mistake of your dcision before your first step.

Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

As you grow older, your body does become weaker, but your mind becomes stronger. You understand and accept yourself.

Learning how to center and control anger, fear, sadness, weakness and learning how to channel that into something smart, cerebralizing it, meditating on it and then moving into it with wisdom - that's important.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.