Quotes About Wisdom

To adore, or scorne an image, or protest, May all be bad; doubt wisely, in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is: on a huge hill, Cragg'd, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenes resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it ... 'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all Relation.

The truly wise know that what we really need are those things that permit our true natures to emerge.

He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.

For every inch that is not fool is rogue.

If you have lived, take thankfully the past.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

The most may err as grossly as the few.

They think too little who talk too much.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

Understanding is not about progress; its about process. What we may finally come to understand is that we won't,can't,understand and that incomprehension is essential to our existance. Mystery is our maker.

I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. —St. Augustine

being.Treasure God's love, and it will equip you to come to the end of life well.

They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green. (Ps. 92:12–14)

Therefore, Ecclesiastes advises us to remember our Creator, which will equip us to go through the losses of our later years well. How simple yet how profound is that advice!

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.