Quotes About Wisdom

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling.

What you spend, you save.

You don't know anything, but I know even less.

Your head is a lit chamber.

The more you know, the more you can make fun of.

Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.

The Truth is in the Depths

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion.

As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.