Quotes About Wisdom

For all that has recently been said about 'the wisdom of crowds', the authors prefer to fly with airlines which rely on the services of skilled and experienced pilots, rather than those who entrust the controls to the average opinion of the passengers.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - Ode to a Grecian Urn

Call the world if you Please "The vale of Soul-making."

When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woeThan ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

The hallmark of the conventional wisdom is acceptability. It has the approval of those to whom it is addressed.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.