Quotes About Wisdom

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Wisdom, information, an idea, is the link between the metaphysical Creator and the physical creation. It is the hidden face of God.

But the Bible is anything but superficial. The Bible is not an easy read, and nature is not a simple study.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.

I had come to think that the Wampanoag, who dealt so kindly with their babes, were wiser than we in this. What profit was there in requiring little ones to behave like adults? Why bridle their spirits and struggle to break their God-given nature before they had the least understanding of what was wanted of them?

When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into her beloved flower beds.

Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

I was struck, as always, that a heathen poet from long ago should know so much of the human heart, and how little that heart changes, though great cities fall and new dispensations sweep away the old and pagan creeds.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.