Quotes About Wisdom

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

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

We die of words. We are hanged, drawn and quartered by dictionaries. We walk in the vale of shadows. It is an age of hobgoblins.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Things are of the snake.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking.

I am the owner of the sphere,Of the seven stars and the solar year,Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.

This world we live in is but thickened light.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.