wisdom Quotes

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.