Quotes About Wisdom

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

It is time to be old,To take in sail.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man. Always the seer is a sayer.

We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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