Quotes About Wisdom

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.

Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius.

To be simple is to be great

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.