Quotes About Wisdom

Arrogance diminishes wisdom

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.

Proverbs are the lamps to words.

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Only he who understands is really sad.

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.

Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist.

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it.

By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.

Listen, if you would learn; be silent, if you would be safe.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Sad are only those who understan.

The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.

True set you free.

A poor man will be poor until the day he discovers that thinking doesn't cost anything.

Self-deception is like this. It blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we're blind, all the "solutions" we can think of will actually make matters worse. Whether at work or at home, self-deception obscures the truth about ourselves, corrupts our view of others and our circumstances, and inhibits our ability to make wise and helpful decisions.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Underlying all true poetry there is a philosophy of life.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.