Wisdom Quotes

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly ...

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by...

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure...

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am igno...

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to ...

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and...

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquesti...

re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults y...

Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from on...

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of ot...

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would h...

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he de...

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in ...

Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, li...

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselv...

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't d...

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loud...

From my college courses and my reading I knew the various names that came at the end of a line of qu...

The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if ...

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosoph...

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is no...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we...

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the s...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do ...

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses...

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a differen...

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,...

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are p...

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese peo...

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afrai...

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be empe...

A path is made by walking on it.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but th...

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon wha...

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst c...

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, ...

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself nee...

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just becaus...

Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

"Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. ...

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

We are not judges of each other's hearts; that belongs to a higher tribunal.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a rive...

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaini...

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the...

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and...

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.