Wisdom Quote by Alexandre Dumas — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

“So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.”

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”

“I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!”

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

“learn from the past live in the present plan for the future”

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”

“Avoid judging others, because nobody knows the beauty and the weight of what it means to be who they are.”

“There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.”