Quotes About Wisdom

Live in these books for a while, learn from them what seems to be worth learning, but above all love them.

Forschen Sie jetzt nicht nach den Antworten, die Ihnen nicht gegeben werden können, weil Sie sie nicht leben könnten. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein.

Darum können junge Menschen, die Anfänger in allem sind, die Liebe noch nicht: sie müssen sie lernen. Mit dem ganzen Wesen, mit allen Kräften, versammelt um ihr einsames, banges, aufwärts schlagendes Herz, müssen sie lieben lernen.

Live the questions now. Perhaps you then may gradually, without noticing, one day in the future, live into the answers.

Os filósofos deveriam ser pacientes e esperar, e não querer fundar uma soberania, nem um reino que se mantenha com os meios do seu tempo. Eles são os reis do vindouro, e as suas coroas ainda são unas com os minérios que enchem as veias das montanhas...

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

There is but one force in life and that is Truth, and there is but one love in life and that is love of mankind, and there is but one God in life and that is the God of all

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.

During these times of indecision when all the old answers are proven false, the people look back to the dead to give them a clue, they call first upon one and then upon another of those who have acted in the past.

Agree 'em to death and destruction," grandfather had advised.

Don't laugh at fools. Some are His.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Fear always springs from ignorance.