Quotes About Wisdom

By words the mind is winged.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

High thoughts must have high language.

How can I study from below, that which is above?

A man can learn wisdom even from a foe

That man is sharp who can say what he wants in a minimum of words.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.

First, have a definite, clear practical idea; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

All men desire to know

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

One swallow does not make a summer.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

All men by nature desire knowledge...

Where the interests of truth are at actual stake, we ought, perhaps, to sacrifice even that which is our own--if, at least, we are to lay any claim to a philosophic spirit.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.