Quotes About Wisdom

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,As sages in all times assert;The happy man's without a shirt.

Burnt child fire dreadeth.

Small pitchers have wide ears.

Haste maketh waste.

Better is to bow than break.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

There is no fool to the old fool.

Good to be merry and wise.

Life is unmanageable if you try to control stupidity other than your own.

la sabiduría es la capacidad de distinguir ambas cosas: aceptar lo que viene dado y tratar de cambiar lo que esté en nuestra mano.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

He who cannot remember the past is doomed. DOOMED!

Didn't Shakespeare say something about 'every fool in error can find a passage of Scripture to back him up'? He knew his religious bigots.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Wisdom says, "Come, eat of my bread and drink of my wine. Forsake your simple ways, and [you will know what it means to truly] live" (Proverbs 9:5–6).

Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.

From the very beginning of my studying I made it a rule that whenever, in any matter, I heard a sounder viewpoint, I abandoned the one I had since I know well that we know far less than what we do not know.