Quotes About Wisdom

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Edward George Bulwer Lytton

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

A lot of people said Star Trek II was such a terrific movie and had a lot of unkind things to say about Star Trek I, but I don't think they realize that Star Trek II wouldn't have been so good if someone hadn't gone boldly where no one had gone before and showed us, in effect, what not to do when it was really important.

O Gracious and Loving God,   the ancients believed that writing   is a sacred gift from you. Send me the gift of words   so that I can say what must be said   in a way that will cause as little pain as possible. Inspire me with your wisdom   and guide my hand as I write.

Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.

A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird

Cicero said that even if his lifetime were to be doubled he would still not have time to waste on reading the lyric poets.

Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo," the seventeenth-century master of haiku, Matsuo Bash?, wrote in a series of insightful reflections on poetry. I would extend Bash?'s wisdom about nature, and about the poetry of nature in particular, to include the particular nature of poetry: learn about poetry from the poem .

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

for their own self-protection, great figures like Socrates, Spinoza, or Galileo in every generation and culture must somehow learn to camouflage their superiority or suffer the painful consequences.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise

The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

I believe there surely is such a thing as truth, but who among us can claim a monopoly on it? There are those who do, and their own words testify to their intolerance.