Quotes about Wisdom

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is to love, laugh, and work.

Aptitud suple antigüedad.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person.