Quotes by Playwrights - Page 188

Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we learn that true wisdom is a thing that lies far deeper than consciousness. The chief gain of increased consciousness is that it unveils an ever-loftier unconsciousness, on whose heights do the sources lie of the purest wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Wisdom is the lamp of love, and love is the oil of the lamp. Love, sinking deeper, grows wiser; and wisdom that springs up aloft comes ever the nearer to love. Love is the food of wisdom; wisdom the food of love; a circle of light within which those who love, clasp the hands of those who are wise.
Maurice Maeterlinck
He is wise who at last sees in suffering only the light that it sheds on his soul; and whose eyes never rest on the shadow it casts upon those who have sent it towards him. And wiser still is the man to whom sorrow and joy not only bring increase of consciousness, but also the knowledge that something exists superior to consciousness even. To have reached this point is to reach the summit of inward life, whence at last we look down on the flames whose light has helped our ascent.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We suffer but little from suffering itself; but from the manner wherein we accept it overwhelming sorrow may spring. We are wrong in believing that it comes from without. For indeed we create it within us, out of our very substance.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are dead now have learnt this long,Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries.
Derek Walcott
There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.
Maurice Maeterlinck
When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
Noël Coward
On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can’t get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
T.S Eliot
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
William Shakespeare
Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes.Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.
Sophocles
The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
T.S Eliot
You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all.
Cormac McCarthy
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist
Sophocles
For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …
Maurice Maeterlinck
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.
Pearl Cleage
But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.
Robertson Davies
There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
Carson McCullers
The good and wise lead quite lives
Euripides
Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)
Witold Gombrowicz
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.
Robertson Davies
Leave no stone unturned.
Euripides
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
Euripides
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
W Somerset Maugham
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got you in you may never get over it as long as you live.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
William Shakespeare
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
Aristophanes
Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.
W Somerset Maugham
Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
Graham Greene
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
A.A. Milne
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
William Shakespeare
for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea
Honoré de Balzac
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
Jules Verne
It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
William Saroyan
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.
Aeschylus
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.
Anton Chekhov
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.
Patrick Jones
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
Euripides
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Anton Chekhov
My soul is in the sky.
William Shakespeare