110+ Baltasar Gracian Quotes On Worldly Wisdom, Worldly Wisdom Pdf And Wisdom

Baltasar Gracian was a Spanish philosopher who lived during the 17th century. He was a Jesuit priest and a prolific writer, producing philosophical and literary works that were highly influential during the Baroque era. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom, which is still widely read today. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Baltasar Gracian on life, love, worldly wisdom.

Top 10 Baltasar Gracian Quotes

1. The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
2. Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
3. A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
4. Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
5. He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
6. It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
7. Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.
8. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
9. The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
10. Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Baltasar Gracian Image Quotes

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. — Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. — Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian Short Quotes

• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
• One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
• True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
• Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
• Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.
• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Life

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. — Baltasar Gracian

Life is a warfare against the malice of others. — Baltasar Gracian

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices. — Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. — Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends. — Baltasar Gracian

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life. — Baltasar Gracian

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters. — Baltasar Gracian

Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end — Baltasar Gracian

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed. — Baltasar Gracian

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone. — Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Wisdom

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. — Baltasar Gracian

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. — Baltasar Gracian

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already. — Baltasar Gracian

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance. — Baltasar Gracian

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be. — Baltasar Gracian

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. — Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness. — Baltasar Gracian

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. — Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot. — Baltasar Gracian

Be first the master of yourself — Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Wise

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. — Baltasar Gracian

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Baltasar Gracian

The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him. — Baltasar Gracian

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. — Baltasar Gracian

The wise does at once what the fool does at last. — Baltasar Gracian

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. — Baltasar Gracian

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends . — Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. — Baltasar Gracian

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful. — Baltasar Gracian

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. — Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Friends

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. — Baltasar Gracian

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. — Baltasar Gracian

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends. — Baltasar Gracian

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence. — Baltasar Gracian

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances. — Baltasar Gracian

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian

Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian

To keep is more important than to make friends. — Baltasar Gracian

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies. — Baltasar Gracian

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed. — Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Fool

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time. — Baltasar Gracian

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything. — Baltasar Gracian

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are. — Baltasar Gracian

Hurry is the weakness of fools. — Baltasar Gracian

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold. — Baltasar Gracian

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions. — Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Evil

Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master. — Baltasar Gracian

Evil report carries further than any applause. — Baltasar Gracian

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad. — Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian Famous Quotes And Sayings

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers. — Baltasar Gracian

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. — Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. — Baltasar Gracian

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. — Baltasar Gracian

Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness. — Baltasar Gracian

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. — Baltasar Gracian

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. — Baltasar Gracian

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. — Baltasar Gracian

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. — Baltasar Gracian

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him. — Baltasar Gracian

Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. — Baltasar Gracian

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. — Baltasar Gracian

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. — Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian

The path to greatness is along with others. — Baltasar Gracian

Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties. — Baltasar Gracian

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. — Baltasar Gracian

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies. — Baltasar Gracian

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. — Baltasar Gracian

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal. — Baltasar Gracian

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration. — Baltasar Gracian

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. — Baltasar Gracian

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. — Baltasar Gracian

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. — Baltasar Gracian

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. — Baltasar Gracian

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. — Baltasar Gracian

Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty. — Baltasar Gracian

When desire dies, fear is born. — Baltasar Gracian

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. — Baltasar Gracian

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. — Baltasar Gracian

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater. — Baltasar Gracian

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied. — Baltasar Gracian

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light. — Baltasar Gracian

Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations. — Baltasar Gracian

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure. — Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. — Baltasar Gracian

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard. — Baltasar Gracian

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it. — Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. — Baltasar Gracian

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. — Baltasar Gracian

There is no desert like being friendless. — Baltasar Gracian

We live by information, not by sight. — Baltasar Gracian

Beauty and folly are generally companions. — Baltasar Gracian

Good things, when short, are twice as good. — Baltasar Gracian

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground — Baltasar Gracian

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art. — Baltasar Gracian

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. — Baltasar Gracian

No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them. — Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness. — Baltasar Gracian

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes. — Baltasar Gracian

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. — Baltasar Gracian

Begin with another's to end with your own. — Baltasar Gracian

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing. — Baltasar Gracian

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. — Baltasar Gracian

The more merit, the less affection. — Baltasar Gracian

Admiration is the basis of ignorance. — Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. — Baltasar Gracian

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. — Baltasar Gracian

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. — Baltasar Gracian

There is no need to show your ability before everyone. — Baltasar Gracian

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth. — Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. — Baltasar Gracian

To be at ease is better than to be at business. — Baltasar Gracian

Exaggeration is a branch of lying. — Baltasar Gracian

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them. — Baltasar Gracian

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement. — Baltasar Gracian

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. — Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. — Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation. — Baltasar Gracian

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains. — Baltasar Gracian

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. — Baltasar Gracian

Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues. — Baltasar Gracian

Life Lessons by Baltasar Gracian

1. Baltasar Gracian taught that life should be lived with purpose and moderation, and that it is important to strive for excellence in all areas.
2. He also believed that it is important to be mindful of the consequences of our actions and to be aware of our own limitations.
3. Finally, he believed that it is essential to maintain a sense of balance and harmony in life, and to strive to be the best version of ourselves.