Quotes About Wisdom

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.

Muscle is good, but craft is better

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.

When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.