Quotes About Wisdom

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.

I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated." [ Saturday Evening Post , September 27, 1958]

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

Aunt Sarah's still smooth, unwrinkled, youthful looking face, made more charming by being framed in waves of silvery gray hair, on which the "Hand of Time," in passing, had sprinkled some of the dust from the road of life.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.