Quotes About Wisdom

For simple are the words of truth.

The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Wisdom comes only through suffering.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Old men are always young enough to learn.

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

When deep slumber falls, remembered sins Chafe the sore heart with fresh pain, and no Welcome wisdom meets within.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

Look to it and consider, and deem not That ever stubbornness excels discretion.

Both silent, when there is need, and speaking in season.

I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.