Quotes About Wisdom

Man shall learn from man's lot.

You have learned the lesson by experience.

But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.

He has opened the way of wisdom to mortals, by proclaiming as a sovereign law: By suffering comes understanding

Time in its aging course teaches all things.

We are the old, dishonoured ones, the broken husks of men. Even then they cast us off, the rescue mission left us here to prop a child's strength upon a stick. What if the new sap rises in his chest? He has no soldiery in him, no more than we, and we are the aged past ageing, gloss of the leaf shrivelled, three legs at a time we falter on. Old men are children once again, a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Write what I tell you in your book of memory.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

Yet the insidious guile of god—what mortal man can escape it? Who with agile foot can lightly overleap and escape its toils?

It is tempting For the winner, who might have lost his life, To take all. And to destroy whatever cannot be taken. Let us pray they restrain themselves.

Old age that's quick to learn is always young.

Furono saggi i nostri padri, facendo questa legge: che chi avesse le mani insanguinate non potesse farsi vedere né avere contatto con nessuno; e l'espiazione fosse l'esilio, non la morte. Ché, se no, ci sarebbe sempre stato uno implicato nel sangue: quello con l'ultima sozzura sulle mani.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.

An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way.

The Astronomer AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?

It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.

The Flies And The Honey-Pot A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

What is most truly valuable is often underrated.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.