Quotes About Wisdom

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

Speaking a story can be an act of letting in light.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales.

SPIRIT RULES SECRETLY ALONE THE BODY ACHIEVES NOTHINGis something you knowinstinctively at fourteen and can still remember even with hell in your headat sixteen.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

LIII. What is the holiness of conversation? It is to master death.

After all why study the past? Because you may wish to repeat it.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.

Are these words true? At the second: Are they necessary? At the third: Are they kind?

Or reading poetry. Now there was a job that should exist. To spend one's days in the company of Blake and Dickinson, Yeats and Hopkins, Auden and Milton. To fill one's mind with their wisdom, the music of their words. Today

If I am a fool, he said, Then let me be a great fool and not a small one.

A Papa az ír nyugaton nÅ'tt fel - mindig is tudta, mi a helyes. Tökéletes modora volt. Ami szerintem nagyjából abból allt, hogy soha, senkinek semmit nem mondott.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Man himself, meeked by his Creator, may when taught and tamed, share the divine life.