“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.”
Source: Antigone, Line 1347, closing lines
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Sophocles 68
ancient Greek tragedian -496–-406 BCRelated quotes
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
Variant: The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
Quotation; since at least 1986 a paraphrased form misattributed to his son Benjamin Disraeli has often been quoted: "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
Curiosities of Literature (1791–1834)
Siddhartha (1922)
Context: Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Decisions http://byub.org/findatalk/details.asp?ID=4343 BYU Devotional, February 6, 1977.
Quoted by A. E. Hotchner in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979), p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=IBBbPUCmiNUC&q=%22I+was+born+wise+Street-wise+people-wise+self-wise+This+wisdom+was+my+birthright+I+was+also+born+old+And+illegitimate+But+the+two+big+advantages+I+had+at+birth+were+to+have+been+born+wise+and+to+have+been+born+in+poverty%22&pg=PA9#v=onepage
“The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.”
Of Carroll's essay Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing; p. 18
M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003)
“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
Source: The Complete Essays