Silence makes even idiots seem wise for a minute.
Silence in not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly.
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed anymore.
Science will give us wisdom, wisdom will reveal the laws, and the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness.[Наука даст нам премудрость, премудрость откроет законы, а знание законов счастья – выше счастья.]
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Sand keeps secrets better than mud.
Presumption first blinds a Man, then sets him a running.
Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.[Le parfum, c’est l’âme de la fleur, et les fleurs de la mer, ces splendides hydrophytes, n’ont pas d’âme!]
Passion often turns the cleverest men into idiots and makes the greatest blockheads clever.[La passion fait souvent un fou du plus habile homme, et rend souvent les plus sots habiles.]
Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height.[Aus dem Tiefsten muss das Höchste zu seiner Höhe kommen.]
Only those with their feet on rock can build castles in the air.
Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger.
