Quotes About Wisdom

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.

Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.

Uma palavra e tudo está salvo Uma palavra e tudo está perdido.

La vie est lente et l'homme ne sait guère la jouer.

La plus grande faiblesse de la pensée contemporaine me paraît résider dans la surestimation extravagante du connu par rapport à ce qui reste à connaître.

Los libros no valen más que en la medida en que nos enseñan a amar

Hay que vivir la pasión cuando se presenta, pero lo más sensato es no esperar nada de ella.

Ninguém é sábio por inteiro, mas quem se resignaria a ser totalmente louco?

Réussir sa vie ? Il y a bien longtemps que le sage ne s'en préoccupe plus ! Vivre lui suffit, dans son insuffisance essentielle. Montaigne encore : « Je veux qu'on agisse, et qu'on allonge les offices de la vie tant qu'on peut, et que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux, mais nonchalant d'elle, et encore plus de mon jardin imparfait2845

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

Vorbele sunt oglinda gandurilor pe care le nutresti.

Juger c'est, de toute évidence ne pas comprendre puisque, si l'on comprenait, on ne pourrait pas juger.

How can one make the best of one's life? By converting as wide a range of experience as possible into conscious thought.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that is is too late and the game finished, and the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy person has not time to form.